H-1B visa use by U.S. firms holds steady in '09

U.S. companies were still getting H-1B visa petitions even as they cut jobs, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service that shows who received the visas in the 2009 fiscal year. A couple of trends are immediately apparent. First, some of the big India IT services cut back on their H-1B use during the softening job market. For instance, Infosys Technologies Ltd. received only 440 visas in the fiscal year that began Oct. 1, 2008 and ended on Sept. 30, 2009.

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