[debarshri]

You have to maintain certain ratio to hire locally and move h1b employees. Quite sometimes, you need client facing employee to be a local.

Also, what i have seen in europe is that, there is a mandate where in they have to publish the job locally and when they cannot find the employee, they can sponsor a visa and bring them into the country. However, what they do is, they would reject all the local candidates and claim that they could not find the candidate with right technology fit.