Outsourcing generally means that you hire a (often foreign) consulting company to do your work for you, instead of having your own employees do it. That’s much different from getting an immigrant a work visa and having them work for you.

Yeah, many countries do this. It’s common in Europe but the US does it also.

I think he’s saying it’s harder to get a work visa taking a job in IT, as the EU company would have to first prove that they couldn’t find a European citizen to take the job before they can start hiring foreigners.

It hasn’t been my experience though, we hire lots of foreigners on work visas. Many from India and former Soviet countries especially.