According to the media report, the US government has opened an investigation against two biggest Indian outsourcing companies for the possible violations of H1-B visa rules.

The New York Times said, the department of Labour has opened the investigation against Tata Consultancy Services and Infosys for the “possible violations of rules for visas for foreign technology workers under contracts they held with an electric utility Southern California Edison.”

According to the report, the power company had recently laid off more than 500 technology workers amid claims that many of those laid off were made to train their replacements who were immigrants on the temporary work visas brought in by the Indian firms Senators Richard Durbin of Illinois and Jeff Sessions of Alabama announced the investigation after they were notified by the department.

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