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| Satyam gets more H1-B visas than Microsoft |
| Press Trust of India / Washington Feb 24, 2009, 20:53 IST |
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It may be at the centre of India's biggest ever corporate fraud now, but Satyam Computer was issued more H1-B visas than any other company in the world except for two of its Indian rivals in the last fiscal.
With a tally of 1,917 H1-B visas, Satyam was the third biggest recipient of these non-immigrant visas given by the US to skilled foreign professionals, after its Indian peers Infosys and Wipro in the fiscal year ended September 20, 2008.
According to the data, complied by the US Citizenship & Immigration Service, and released today, Satyam's share of H1-B visas is bigger than India's top technology exporter TCS, which is ranked fourth in the global tally with 1,539 visas.
The country's second largest IT exporter Infosys tops the list with 4,559 visas, followed by third largest IT firm Wirpo with 2,678 visas.
The four Indian IT firms, occupying the top four positions, are followed by US-based software major Microsoft at the fifth position with 1,037 visas for the year.
The US has capped total H1-B visa issuance in a year at 65,000, which was revised down from 1,95,000 about two years ago.
Other Indian companies to figure in the top-ten include Larsen & Toubro (403 visas) -- one of the suitors for crisis-ridden Satyam, which has been put up on sale by its government-appointed board.
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