Cos debarred for H-1B visas |
In a new directive recently, the Donald Trump administration made the renewal of non-immigrant visas such as H-1B and L1 (the most popular visas among Indian IT professionals) more difficult. Repealing its over 13-year-old policy, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) said that the burden of proof in establishing eligibility is, at all times, on the petitioner. The new policy is said to be in line with the Trump administration`s goal to protect American workers from discrimination and replacement by foreign labour. However, even before Trump came to power several bills have been introduced in the US in the last several years seeking to bar Indian and US-based IT companies from hiring professionals on H-1B and L1 visas. Recently after the first US-India bilateral Trade Policy Forum (TPF) under the Trump administration, Indian minister Suresh Prabhu said that India has raised the issue of Indian professionals and H-1B and L1 visas very strongly.
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