India is the largest single country source for these hires, by both Indian firms operating in the US and American companies such as Cognizant, IBM and others. But it’s the Indian companies, and their American partners, that get hit the hardest. Trump will move against H-1Bs but in the estimation of the Indian tech companies, the start, as he has said, will be investigations and “audits” by the labour department that most companies expect to survive, with some discomfort. In their estimation, the Trump administration could slow down the H-1B visa process, or change definitions of qualifying criteria for other visa types for high-skilled labour such as L-1 and L-2, for intra-company transfer to the US. Read| Tech workers with H1-B visas may face uncertain future under Trump, Sessions

Source: Hindustan Times January 09, 2017 12:10 UTC