Special Visa's Use for Tech Workers Is Challenged.

Discusses the use of L-1 visas by foreign companies to bring foreign workers into the United States. How firms recruit foreign employees in order to lower their labor costs; Consideration of how firms in India bring workers into the U.S. and then contract them out to U.S. companies; Investigation of the legality of the L-1 visas by officials at the U.S. Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security; Decline in the use of H-1B visas by foreign software engineers who wish to work in the U.S; Efforts of trade groups to improve the pay rates for foreign workers in the U.S.