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| Infosys visa issues: Will the case hold in US court?
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 26-July-2012
8:48:5 AM |
| Infosys whistleblower Jack Palmer's case against Infosys will go to trial in August. This after attempts at mediation between the company and Mr Palmer fell through. Mr Palmer, an Infosys employee based in the US says he was harassed at work after he pointed out, what he said was the misuse of US B1 visas.
As of now it is just a civil suit against Infosys but the damage is already done. Jack Palmer's case has already triggered a US government probe into whether Infosys Technologies Ltd. violated US Visa laws.
Based on Mr Palmer's allegations federal authorities are looking into whether Infosys brought Indian workers to the US on short-term visitor visas, known as B1, instead of the temporary work visas, known as H-1B, which are costlier and harder to get. According to Mr Palmer's lawsuit, filed in February 2011, those hired by Infosys on a B1 visa were not paid a US wage
"It has really brought a lot of negative attention on a visa that is really not used very much. It has painted a broad picture that there is large-scale visa fraud while it is always very small percentages. According to Infosys, less than two per cent of their employees were on this visa," Immigration Attorney, Ashima Duggal explains.
Infosys has denied any wrongdoing.
Legal experts say Mr Palmer's lawyers may face a challenge in court as the law concerning B1 visas is ambiguous.
Immigration Attorney Cyrus Mehta argues, "The B1 essentially allows the company pretty broad usage. The B1 is traditionally used for business purposes. That is you come to the US to attend a meeting or negotiate a deal and then go back. But in the IT industry you could come on a B1 visa attend meeting, do some requirement analysis, you might be doing some coding with the intent of taking it back to India for further off shore development and the issue is whether that constitutes work or not and that is where the ambiguity lies with the B1 visa
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