The US President's order on immigration was sparse in detail: Jefferies
According to the USCIS figures, it received 37,000 less H-1B petitions for 2018
H-1B visa programme is most sought-after by Indian IT firms, professionals to work on customer sites
Rising rupee is aggravating situation further for the technology export firms, says Assocham
Trump's order on H-1B visas could impact TCS, Infosys, other IT Firms
Trump signed the order targeting the programme popular with Indian technology professionals
Party leadership is not satisfied with Trump's executive order which seeks the review of H-1B visa
Rajesh Gopinathan: Unfazed by the possible changes to the H1-B visa regime
A total of 199,000 applications were received for 85,000 visas
The executive order would tighten the process of issuing the H-1B visas
"Firms in the IT sector also earned substantially higher profits thanks to immigration
But Indian information technology workers might do better without the companies that held them back
Here is an FAQ on the H1B visa programme
The Donald Trump Administration has come out with new measures to increase scrutiny of H1B visa holders working for companies in the US, while bringing in new restrictions for fresh applications for the visa programme designed to attract highly skilled foreign workers.The move is likely to hit Indian IT firms such as Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Wipro and American firms such as IBM, Google and Facebook, who depend on H1B visas to send engineers from India to work on projects in the US. The US opened the window to invite applications for 80,000 H1B visas it plans to issue in 2018."The H-1B visa programme should help US companies recruit highly-skilled foreign nationals when there is a shortage of qualified workers in the country. Yet, too many American workers who are as qualified, willing, and deserving to work in these fields have been ignored or unfairly disadvantaged. Protecting American workers by combating fraud in our employment-based immigration programs is a ...
President Trump has vowed to overhaul the popular visa programme
Memo issued over weekend is a clarification for a specific centre, not a wide-ranging rule change
Indian IT companies use H-1B visa to fly engineers to the US to service clients temporarily
White House was responding to a question on possible changes in H-1B visas
The former Obama administration diplomat called for a rational discourse on this issue
India accounts for more than half of the world's outsourcing