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When an attorney at a legal ceremony last month explained how to use the H1-B visa program to hire foreign high tech workers instead of Americans, it got YouTubed, quite naturally. But when Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Lamar Smith (R-Texas) took a peek, it really went viral.
Now the Senators are demanding a federal investigation. In the video, Lawrence Lebowitz of Cohen & Grigsby, breaks down a technique that lets U.S. companies hire foreign workers under the government's Program Electronic Review
Management process. PERM covers requirements for companies placing help wanted ads in an attempt of get more U.S.
workers hired, not less. An employer has to show that no qualified Americans are available, and Lebowitz and other lawyers in the video show detail ways for companies to legally reject American applicants.
UPDATE: Top Indian outsourcing company denies charges of fraud. Grassley stays on the attack, targets L visas. More here.
