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U.S. authorities are investigating whether an Indian software giant repeatedly violated American visa laws in order to place its own foreign employees in temporary jobs at some big corporate clients in the U.S.

The probe is examining whether Infosys Technologies Ltd. used inexpensive, easy-to-obtain visas meant to cover short-term business visits to the U.S.—instead of the appropriate, but harder to get, work visas—to bring in an unknown number of its employees for longer-term stays, according to people familiar with the matter...

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