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January 2017
US
President Donald Trump is preparing to issue executive orders on the H1-B and
other visas that are the life blood of Indian technology companies in the US,
his spokesperson Sean Spicer has indicated raising the likelihood of stringent restrictions
being placed on them. The Total
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Spicer
told reporters on Monday that H-1Bs and other visa are "a part of larger
immigration reform effort that trump will continue to talk about through
executive order and through working with Congress."
"There
is an overall need to look at all these programs and you will see that both
through executive action and through comprehensive legislative measures a way
to address immigration as a whole and the visa programmes," he said. The Total Investment & Insurance
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Before
assuming office in January, Trump said that one of his first tasks would be to
issue an executive order for the Labour Department to investigate visa abuses
that he asserted undercut the wages of American workers. The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Along
with H1-B, Spicer mentioned spousal and others as categories of visas that
Trump may act on.
H1-B
visas are issued to qualified professionals. A related visa is the L1, which is
given to employees of a company who are transferred to the US. Both of them are
used extensively by Indian companies.
In
2015, President Barack Obama's administration permitted spouses of H1-B
visa-holders to get permission to work.
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Spicer
said that these visas were part of the "larger immigration reform
effort".
"You've
already seen a lot of action on immigration," he added, referring to the
temporary ban on visitors from nine countries from where this and previous administrations
have perceived terrorist threats.
According
to ComputerWorld magazine, nearly 86 per cent of H1-B visas for
computer-related jobs and 46.5 per cent for engineering positions were given to
Indians.
The US
issues 85,000 H1-B visas every year, of which 20,000 are for master's degree
holders from US universities. Because of the large number of applicants -
236,000 in 2016 - the H1-B visas were issued through a lottery system. The Total Investment & Insurance
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During
his campaign and afterwards, Trump criticised the work visa system for the
abuses in the way visas were obtained and the impact on American technology
workers.
He
vowed in a speech in December 2016, to end the practice of laid off American
workers being made to train foreigners brought over to replace them. The Total Investment & Insurance
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He
called these incidents "demeaning" and said, "We are not going
to let it happen to our people any more." The Total Investment & Insurance Solutions
Like
Trump, some Democrats, also want to restrict H1-B visas. The Total Investment & Insurance
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