Despite H-1B lottery, offshore firms dominate visa use

Offshore outsourcing firms that do most of their work in India remain the largest users of the H-1B visa for computer-related jobs, seemingly unaffected by the odds of the visa lottery, according to new data.

随着一些科技公司的例外 - 尤其是微软，谷歌，亚马逊和甲骨文 - 25 H-1B-使用公司的顶部，要么总部位于印度或者是运行大型海上作业的美国公司。

这些公司包括塔塔咨询服务公司，拥有7149个核准签证申请，去年领先的H-1B的用户，公司和Infosys，这在刚刚超过4000批签证排在第三位的名单上。二者均在南加州爱迪生公司，其中主要承包商IT employees were firedas work was shifted to contractors.

HCL，在承包商之一Disney Parks and Resorts，被批准为刚刚超过900签证。IT员工在爱迪生和迪斯尼抱怨训练他们的签证持有替代之前失去他们的工作。（迪斯尼后来说，这是取消其最近的IT外包计划).

The IT services firms in the top 25 H-1B using firms accounted for approximately 43% of the 76,272 H-1B approvalsin new computer-related jobs onlyin the U.S. government's fiscal year 2014, which ran from Oct. 1, 2013 to Sept. 30, 2014.

This is the first time we have data broken down by job type, via a federal Freedom of Information Act request. These totals will likely be lower thanH-1Btotals reported in prior yearswhenComputerworld没有通过就业类别细分。就业变化（而不是新的就业）签证申请不包括在这些总计。

The U.S. has been distributing its annual 85,000 H-1B allotment via a lottery because of high demand. This system works against many small U.S. tech firms that make up the bulk of the visa applicants. They must compete against large-volume IT services firms that submit multiple H-1B visa applications to improve their odds of winning the lottery, according to immigration experts.

New computer-related employment last federal fiscal year represented almost 64%, or two out of every three, such visas issued. Other job categories included engineering, medicine, science, law and, yes, modeling. (While rumors persist this is a large use of the H-1B program, in fact there were only 38 visas approved for fashion model new employment last fiscal year).

Computerworldrequested but did not receive information about how many of these approvals were not subject to the H-1B cap, as well as a breakdown of approvals by gender and data about wages.

The tally of top H-1B users includesComputerworldanalyses to combine various iterations of company names; there were, for example, 64 different versions of Cognizant Technology Solutions, including Cognizant Tech Solns US Corp, Cognizant Technology Solns US Corp and so on. The analysis also combines a company's different divisions and business units -- IBM Corp and IBM India, among others.

彩票可以创造各种各样的军备竞赛。在2014财年，美国收到124000 H-1B签证申请;在2015年，这个数字达到了172000和2016财年（即举行今年四月的抽奖活动），美国收到233,000签证申请。

可能有30万个签证申请或以上，明年说，前众议员布鲁斯·莫里森（d-康涅狄格州），是谁创造了H-1B签证1990年移民法的作者。他认为，这是怎么回事的形式“选票箱馅。”

“他们正在购买更多的门票[H-1B签证申请]因为赢球的比例已经下降 - 这是任何方式彩票的作品，”莫里森说。申请人可根据法律规定，允许公司申请，即使人谁不是雇员的签证做到这一点，他说。

Morrison, who has represented the IEEE, says one fix is to give firms that aren't H-1B dependent preference or first crack at a visa. H-1B dependent is a legal classification that applies to firms that have 15% or more of their workers on this temporary, non-immigrant visa. That's a change the White House could make through regulation, he said.

Another remedy is to give preference to those firms that are paying the highest salaries to the visa workers, said Morrison.

作为一个离岸车辆的使用H-1B签证是没有预见到当法律在25年前通过，莫里森说。但通过巧妙的运用管理的签证规定，H-1B签证已经成为“用于置换美国工人的系统，”他说。

在有大量公司仅提交了一个申请的可能性，科斯塔说，也许这是有道理的“，让每个雇主与所接受请愿得到他们的H-1B签证的工人中的至少一个，给第二到任何一家公司之前，因为像Infosys和塔塔公司有可能从几千提交请愿书，这增加了他们的彩票越来越回升的机会，而规模较小的公司，只需要一个或两个H-1B签证的工人都完全失去了受益，”他说。

The data include those H-1B applicants approved between Oct. 1, 2013 and Sept. 30, 2014 for new employment在计算机相关的工作只. This is the first time we have data broken down by job type, via a federal Freedom of Information Act request. These totals will likely be lower thanH-1Btotals reported in prior yearswhenComputerworldjust had overall totals for all employment categories.

这个故事，“尽管H-1B彩票，离岸公司控制的签证使用”最初发表Computerworld .