Increasing trends of cheap and quality software development have raised a great interest in offshore software
development. Sub continental software houses are much cheaper than the European or American market. Due to
cultural social and linguistic differences the requirement gathering has become difficult for offshore software
developers. In this study the requirement gathering issues for offshore software houses are investigated and then the
standard requirement engineering models are compared with each other according to different metrics and a
comprehensive survey among the sub continental software engineers is carried out to suggest a proper requirement
engineering model according to the nature of the project.