Tech world jeers too at visa route

Tech companies depend on the 85,000 workers allowed into US annually under the H1B visa programme

The “knowledge transfer sessions” started a few months after Jeff Tan received notice last summer that he and about 80 co-workers would be laid off by the University of California, San Francisco, at the end of February.

At daily two-hour meetings with employees from HCL Technologies, an Indian tech services company that had landed the outsourcing contract from UCSF, Tan trained HCL staff members in India by video conference and employees brought to the United States on H1B visas how to do his job.

More than any other industry, tech companies depend on the 85,000 foreign workers allowed