In a major relief to global companies, especially tech firms that deploy huge workforce in the US, a California federal judge on Wednesday struck down two of the Trump administration's recent rules meant to drastically curtail the number of visas issued to skilled foreign workers every year. The verdict is likely to immensely benefit the export-driven Indian IT services industry which is hugely dependent on skilled workforce from offshore locations including India to manage their software delivery work in the US as well as local American companies that hugely rely on global tech workforce.
“This is a very good development