Last month, a Trump administration official accused top Indian outsourcers of unfairly cornering the lion’s share of H-1B visas. With the H-1B laws poised to be tightened, India’s IT majors like Infosys and TCS have looked for ways to continue their operations in the US without sending Indian employees to customer sites in the US, which is the largest market for the over $110-billion Indian IT export industry. However many […]

Anticipating a more protectionist US technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India’s $150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there. Companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro have long used H1-B skilled worker visas to fly computer engineers to the US, their largest overseas market, temporarily to service clients. Staff from those three […]