The US government’s increased scrutiny of H1B visa applications would have a bigger impact on skilled professionals than on IT services firms, said Timothy J Zanni, US technology sector leader, KPMG.
After becoming the US President in January, Donald Trump is making efforts to implement his election promise of restricting immigrants into the country. Since then, the US administration has pushed a few items of legislation seeking to increase the minimum wages for H1B visa-holders and has backed immigration of highly skilled workers “to protect jobs of Americans”. Trump has issued multiple executive orders to beef up the H1B visa