It is also commonplace that institutions often discriminate in the recruitment process of foreign professionals.

Scrutiny has centered on foreign professionals who are computer programmers, with the largest share coming from India and the Philippines.

Since 2000, the combined police, immigration, and customs role has been held by a series of foreign professionals on short-term secondment.

But that is not the way foreign professionals experience Americans when they are assigned to work in the states, Across the Board reports.

Indonesia has strict rules of the amount of foreign professionals any one company can employ.

The many foreign professionals - physicians, for example - who have been denied visas certainly have grounds to dispute that assertion.

The "nightmare" is a sharp drop - to 65,000 from 195,000 - in the number of H-1B visas granted for skilled foreign professionals.

The Centre has trained 300 foreign national professionals from about 60 countries in telecom technology since its inception.

There are two reasons for the massive layoffs of foreign professionals.

Legions of foreign professionals at high-tech companies across the country are in the same position.