Strict H-1B visa rule will not impact Indian IT companies: Mohandas Pai

The US, which has taken a number of steps to tighten visa processes, accounts for over 60 per cent of India's IT export revenues

The recent move by the US to tighten H-1B visa approval is unlikely to have any significant impact on Indian IT companies compliant with laws, but could "hurt" bodyshops that misuse the system, industry veteran T V Mohandas Pai today said.
 

Under the new policy, a company will have to go an extra mile to prove that its H-1B employee at a third-party worksite has specific and non-qualifying speculative assignments in speciality occupation.
 

The new move announced recently through a seven-page policy empowers the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to issue H-1B visas to an employee only for the