Among a bunch of new changes that the Donald Trump administration is bringing to the H-1B visa program, the Department of Homeland Security also wants to provide greater scrutiny of third-party placements. It is a common practice in the H-1B visa program that a company hires a foreign worker on this visa program to perform jobs for another company. Such companies are also called IT bodyshops. These companies manage the payroll of the H-1B visa holders, and they handle the immigration filings of these visa holders while these visa holders work for another company. The end client, the company for which the H-1B visa holders work, basically outsources all the foreign hiring-related work to these third-party companies.
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