The Bill also proposes making Master’s degrees mandatory to qualify for work with H1B visas. A drop in demand for H1B visas has been apparent in the number of visas sought by big Indian IT companies. The mainstream IT companies are looking at hiring more US citizens and moving work offshore to India to compensate for the tightening of H1B visa norms over the last year. “Every year, we used to apply for about 600 H1B visas through an US affiliate and we would get 200 visas. The proposed ‘Protect and Grow American Jobs’ law claims to be also intended to curb Indian firms from cornering H1B visas.

Source: Indian Express November 17, 2017 16:18 UTC