Thursday, May 28, 2009

US: H-1B workers outnumber unemployed techies

From Computerworld, May 26, 2009...

As unemployment among tech workers increases with the recession, the U.S. government is raising broad questions as part of a federal case over H-1Bs about the connection of visa fraud to the unemployment of IT workers.

The government's interest in H-1B fraud-related unemployment turned up in court filings in a case in U.S. District Court in Iowa against a New Jersey IT firm, Vision Systems Group in South Plainfield, NJ, which was indicted in February on visa-related fraud charges.

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