US visa decision concerns Nasscom |
Indian IT industry body Nasscom shrugged off pre-election political commentary in the US around work visas, but expressed concern over "discriminatory approaches" of the American authorities. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has sounded death knell to the H-1B visas by proposing to raise the minimum wage for this most-popular work visa for Indian technology professionals. Nasscom President R Chandrashekhar said the US` plan to hike the fees for work visas has already been taken even though it has been discriminatory and causing injury to the industry. Earlier this year, the Indian government moved the World Trade Organisation (WTO) against the US imposing higher fee for applicants seeking two categories of non-immigrant temporary working visas.The US actions are discriminatory and single out the Indian industry for the impact of those measures...even though the Indian companies were not named as such, it was clear that the entire impact was only and solely on Indian companies, he said. This was the reason, he said, why the industry sought the Indian government`s intervention on the matter, and moved the WTO for remedial action.
|
|
|
|