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These changes could lead to deportation of 500,000 to 750,000 Indian H-1B visa holders LATEST NEWS :  The proposed US Bill, Protect and Grow American Jobs, is riddled with "onerous conditions" and places "unprecedented obligations" on both Indian IT companies and clients using H-1B visas. Software body Nasscom said it has flagged its concerns around visa-related issues in the US with the Senators, Congressmen and the administration, and will engage further in a dialogue over the next few weeks over the proposed legislation. The Bill, which is aligned with President Donald Trump’s “Buy American, Hire American” vision to protect local jobs for American, proposes new restrictions to prevent abuse and misuse of H-1B visas. It tightens the definition of visa-dependent companies and imposes fresh restrictions in terms of minimum salary and movement of talent. If the proposal gets approved, it can cause large-scale deportation of H-1B visa holders, a ...

Indian IT firms account for less than 20 per cent of the H-1B visas Indian IT industry's apex organisation has said that the two top companies -- TCS and Infosys -- got only 8.8 per cent of the H-1B visas for placement of workers in the United States. "Of the six Indian IT companies, software majors TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) and Infosys received 7,504 H-1B visas in FY 2015, which is 8.8 per cent of the total H-1B visas," said the National Association of Software Services and Companies (Nasscom) in a statement here. The apex body's clarification was in response to a US official last week accusing top Indian IT firms TCS and Infosys of unfairly cornering majority of the H-IB visas, by applying more in the lottery system. Read this : Only eight of Nifty50 stocks are at all-time high level Only six Indian IT firms were among the top 20 recipients of the H-1B visas in fiscal 2015 for their professionals to work in the US, said Nasscom. US ...