Every year, half of H-1Bs go to visa middlemen - staffers and outsourcers that farm out lower-paid contract workers. But who hires the middlemen?

We obtained exclusive data, for the first time, to reveal the "end-client" companies that benefit from this broken visa system. In Silicon Valley, H-1B is a pipeline for top global talent. But many other corporations use it for lower-end |T work, and do so indirectly through staffing and outsourcing firms.

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The H-1B visa was designed for specialized talent, but some firms use it to get cheaper immigrant labor and outsource American jobs.

We have exclusive data that reveals how a broken visa system hurt immigrants and US workers alike 🧵 @Cognizant is one of the world’s biggest IT outsourcing firms, with 32,000 employees in the US and 250,000 in India. It's also the biggest H-1B user since 2009.

“The entire business model is built on the back of cheap Indian labor," said one former HR executive.

Every year, a lottery determines who gets an H-1B visa to work in the US. The game, it turns out, is rigged.

Outsourcing and staffing firms are exploiting loopholes, crowding out US employers and immigrants who play it fair.

We have exclusive data to show it for the 1st time 🧵 Follow along this thread 🧵

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