For more than a decade, a powerful, foreign-aligned organization has operated largely out of public view while quietly reshaping America’s immigration system to serve its own economic interests. That organization, ITServe Alliance, is a consortium of more than 2,200 outsourcing and labor-brokerage companies tied overwhelmingly to India’s IT services pipeline. Though it presents itself to lawmakers as a domestic business association promoting “innovation” and “high-skilled talent,” its internal statements, litigation campaigns and foreign partnerships tell a very different story.

Today, ITServe stands as the primary force behind the deceptively branded High-skilled Immigration Reform for Employment (HIRE) Act legislation marketed as modernization, but engineered to inject an even larger volume of foreign labor into the U.S. workforce.

The HIRE Act was first introduced at the end of 2022 by Indian-born Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D.-Ill., then reintroduced in 2023 and 2025. Across every version, the objective is identical: Expand access to foreign labor – especially from India – and widen the H-1B pipeline for employers and outsourcing firms. Each iteration pushes the same agenda: More H-1B inflow, fewer caps, accelerated green cards, reduced scrutiny on H-1B-dependent employers and broader offshore labor channels that benefit visa-dependent staffing companies, not American workers.

The HIRE Act adds no new protections for Americans, but instead speeds permanent residency for foreign workers, exempts more categories from annual H-1B limits and makes compliance easier for employers who already rely heavily on imported labor. Supporters claim this expansion will address “skill shortages” and strengthen STEM education, yet federal oversight shows those promises have failed before. Indeed, the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General found that prior H-1B training and STEM-education funds were routinely mismanaged, spent on programs unrelated to high-skill occupations and produced almost no increase in Americans entering H-1B-type fields. In short, the funding model the HIRE Act relies on has already definitively failed, and expanding it while loosening oversight only deepens America’s dependence on foreign labor rather than creating opportunity for American workers.

ITServe’s business model depends on one thing: a relentless and never-ending supply of cheap, controllable foreign workers. In a member newsletter, the organization openly admits that passing the HIRE Act is intended to “increase their business and profitability,” a blunt confession that reveals the economic model behind the movement. For ITServe, immigration expansion is not a policy preference; it is the fuel that powers an entire labor-replacement ecosystem.

Every additional visa represents another low-cost worker who can be underpaid, tightly controlled and deployed at third-party client sites for maximum profit. What appears on paper as “high-skilled mobility” is, in practice, a mass-import pipeline designed to reduce wages, undermine U.S. job stability and allow foreign consulting companies to undercut American workers in every sector touched by technology.

The labor-replacement cycle: How exploitation becomes replication

ITServe is not simply importing workers; it is manufacturing an entire ecosystem of labor replacement. Foreign workers brought in through H-1B, OPT and CPT programs are placed into U.S. jobs at discounted rates, generating years of profit for outsourcing firms. But the cycle does not end there. Many of those workers eventually open their own staffing companies, replicating the same model that once exploited them. ITServe’s membership rolls are filled with individuals who entered the U.S. on H-1B visas, spent years inside the labor-arbitrage machine, and then launched the next generation of body shops.

Exploitation begets replication, and replication begets expansion. Yesterday’s underpaid foreign worker becomes tomorrow’s labor broker. And every link in the chain deepens America’s massive dependency on foreign labor.

The HIRE Act would accelerate this cycle at unprecedented speed by expanding visa access, weakening oversight and codifying the regulatory loopholes ITServe forced into existence through years of litigation. This is not immigration reform, nor is it about America’s ability to compete globally. It is, rather, a business-expansion blueprint for a foreign-aligned labor cartel.

As ITServe president Vinay Mahajan has stated plainly: “Just as with any members Association, the first mission is always to protect members’ interest. And, the second thing is, of course, because of our collective power, we are able to get benefits for our members.”

Foreign alignment: Indian diplomats confirm ITServe serves India, not America

The foreign alignment of the organization is impossible to ignore. Indian consulates and senior diplomats openly praise ITServe for strengthening India’s economic footprint inside the United States and enlarging the flow of Indian workers into the American labor market. At events such as the “Global Influence of the Indian IT Sector,” Indian officials have celebrated ITServe’s success in expanding bilateral ties through U.S. visa programs, framing the organization as an asset to India’s economy.
ITServe leaders openly acknowledge their allegiance. Subrahmanyam Osuru declared:
“We are the voice of the immigrant majority Indians … driving economic growth … back home in India.”

As a keynote speaker, Anjan Lahiri, CEO of Navikenz and co-founder of Mindtree, devoted his remarks to celebrating the extraordinary rise of India’s IT industry. He pointed to the “remarkable IT growth” India has experienced since the late 1990s. Lahiri attributed this transformation to several factors: India’s economic liberalization, the ability of Indian talent to participate in global technology work, the evolution of companies like TCS and Infosys from technical contractors into industry powerhouses and the role of temporary visas in giving Indian professionals the global experience needed to scale India’s IT capabilities across the world.

At another event, ITServe executives admitted in public remarks that every member firm maintains operations in India, spends “half of their income” in India and employs overseas teams while earning U.S. revenue. These are not American workforce priorities. These statements, all made voluntarily, make clear that ITServe’s definition of “job creation” does not refer to American jobs, but to jobs offshore, supported by American dollars.

These are India-first economic strategies operating inside U.S. borders.

The pattern: ITServe sues, wins and Americans lose

What most Americans and most lawmakers do not know is that nearly every major rollback of H-1B, OPT and staffing-industry oversight in the last decade can be traced directly to ITServe’s litigation strategy.

Through a series of lawsuits filed against the federal government, the organization has systematically dismantled the core protections intended to prevent fraud, wage suppression and worker displacement. One of its most consequential targets was the 2010 Neufeld Memo, which required staffing firms to demonstrate a genuine employer-employee relationship, actual supervision and verifiable work assignments before placing visa workers at third-party job sites. The memo was one of the last lines of defense against fake contracts, shadow projects and speculative employment. ITServe sued to overturn it and won.

After the settlement was finalized, USCIS could no longer enforce crucial verification rules and the floodgates reopened for outsourcing firms to import workers with minimal oversight.

Then the pattern only intensified. When the government required proof of real, non-speculative work for the entire visa period, a basic anti-fraud measure, ITServe sued and nullified the rule. When the Department of Labor tried to raise H-1B wages to eliminate the cost advantage of replacing Americans with cheaper foreign labor, ITServe filed suit almost instantly. In its own internal documents, the organization admitted that if forced to pay higher wages, ITServe member companies would face an “unsustainable situation” and “mass layoffs.” The admission was stunning: The outsourcing model collapses if foreign workers cannot be used to undercut Americans.

ITServe’s litigation victories did not stop at the H-1B program. When USCIS tried to prevent OPT students from being used as contract labor at third-party client sites, ITServe intervened once again and reversed the safeguards. OPT workers pay no payroll taxes and cost U.S. employers far less than American graduates, a financial loophole that outsourcing firms have exploited for years. By eliminating restrictions on OPT deployments, ITServe ensured a steady supply of low-cost foreign student labor to substitute for young Americans trying to enter the workforce.

Every major federal effort to protect U.S. workers, whether through wage rules, verification standards, anti-fraud requirements or limitations on third-party placements, has been met with an ITServe lawsuit. And in most cases ITServe has prevailed. The cumulative effect is a labor market increasingly shaped not by Congress or by regulators, but by a private network of foreign-aligned outsourcing companies whose financial interests depend on neutralizing every safeguard that stands between an American worker and his foreign replacement.

ITServe has demonstrated that it can bend America’s immigration system through courtroom pressure, regulatory attrition and political lobbying. It has shown that it can overturn federal rules, outmaneuver agencies and reshape policy without ever facing public scrutiny. And now, through the HIRE Act, it seeks to cement these gains into law. If Congress fails to recognize the architecture behind this campaign, the outsourcing industry will succeed in transforming U.S. immigration policy into a permanent labor-importation pipeline, one designed not to serve American workers, but to replace them. The future of the American workforce depends on whether lawmakers finally confront the truth: ITServe is not reforming the system – it is capturing it.

ITServe interference with U.S. consulates and visa adjudication

Even U.S. consulates have felt the consequences. A recent Center for Immigration Studies interview with Mahvash Siddiqui, a former consular officer stationed in Chennai, a post that adjudicated 220,000 H-1B visas and 140,000 H-4 visas in 2024, revealed that fraudulent degrees, fake employment records and fabricated client letters were a daily occurrence.

What Siddiqui described from inside the consulate aligned perfectly with ITServe’s internal documents: Fraud had not simply slipped through the cracks, it had been engineered, normalized and defended.

Siddiqui explained how consular officers struggled to enforce basic quality control because they were under-resourced, blocked by bureaucratic obstacles and confronted with pressure from local interests, foreign political actors and what she called a “very effective Indian lobby in the U.S.”

That dynamic mirrors the same shadow lobbying ecosystem in which ITServe has operated for years, dominating the space through relentless litigation, targeted lobbying and sustained pressure on federal agencies to dismantle core safeguards such as 221(g) administrative processing.

Internal ITServe documents show the organization had its litigation attorney pressure federal agencies, challenge enforcement rules and influence U.S. consulates overseas. The organization openly listed the removal of client letters and the reduction of 221(g) administrative processing and other anti-fraud safeguards as major PAC achievements.

In reality, 221(g) should be one of the easiest safeguards for any legitimate business to satisfy. When a consular office issues a 221(g) request, it is simply asking the petitioning company to provide basic evidence that the job is real, the worksite exists, the client relationship is genuine or the project actually requires the worker being sponsored. For reputable employers, these documents, statements of work, contracts, organizational charts, supervision plans or project descriptions, are routine parts of everyday operations.

Honest companies can produce them almost instantly because they already exist as part of normal business activity. The only entities that struggle to comply with 221(g) are those attempting to place visa workers into speculative jobs, shell contracts or client sites where no real supervision or job duties have been secured. In other words, 221(g) does not burden legitimate employers, it exposes illegitimate ones. That is precisely why certain lobbying groups fought so aggressively to weaken it – not because 221(g) created hardship for compliant companies, but because it made fraud easier to detect.

Siddiqui’s testimony therefore did more than expose H-1B fraud, it exposed the results of ITServe’s long-running campaign to erode oversight, weaken consular review and expand the visa pipeline for outsourcing firms. The fraud she witnessed firsthand was the very fraud ITServe had paid attorneys to institutionalize, fought USCIS to preserve and lobbied Congress to expand. Her account confirmed that the breakdown inside the H-1B system was not accidental; it was the outcome of a coordinated, years-long effort to dismantle American safeguards in favor of a foreign labor agenda.

What ITServe’s ‘successes’ really mean for American workers

This brings the focus back to the HIRE Act, the crown jewel of ITServe’s legislative agenda. A membership flyer circulated by the organization explains that member dues help “challenge the upcoming immigration reform which will ELIMINATE our current consulting model.” That model is the body-shop outsourcing system that depends on low-cost foreign labor, minimal regulation and maximum visa throughput. The HIRE Act is not a reform bill. It is regulatory insurance, drafted by the very industry it benefits, to protect and expand the system that has displaced American workers in sector after sector.

For years ITServe has told policymakers it “creates jobs,” yet its leaders routinely acknowledge that their companies route revenue, workforce growth and economic gains to India. The jobs created by ITServe members are not American jobs. They are offshore jobs financed by American contracts. Every time an ITServe firm wins a contract, an American either loses a job outright, is replaced by a foreign worker or sees the role sent overseas entirely.

Congress should be alarmed. Regulators should already be intervening. And the American public deserves to understand that the HIRE Act is not an immigration modernization bill, but the end result of a coordinated, foreign-aligned effort to dismantle the safeguards that once protected U.S. workers.

WND will expose ITServe continually until regulators act

WND’s investigation into ITServe Alliance is only beginning. Starting this week, WND will be publishing a permanent, continuously expanding evidence archive as well as articles that lay bare ITServe’s litigation campaigns, its offshoring machinery, its discriminatory hiring practices, its visa-fraud ecosystem, its foreign-influence networks and the internal communications that reveal how this organization has worked for years against the interests of American workers. This archive will grow day by day, document by document, until the HIRE Act is withdrawn and until federal and state authorities finally confront the full scope of the damage ITServe has inflicted on the U.S. labor market.

America’s immigration system should serve America’s national interest. ITServe Alliance has spent years ensuring it serves something else. WND will continue exposing that reality and is committed to promoting transparency and public awareness, ensuring that Americans – and particularly, American workers – have access to the full picture as these issues continue to unfold.