Thu, Jun 29, 2023
Canada's recent unveiling of H-1B visa reform incorporates multiple new strategies to encourage worldwide tech expertise. Considering the high demand for skilled tech professionals in Canada, Indian workers and their families might find more stable and favourable circumstances.
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Fri, Dec 24, 2021
US has announced that it will waive the in-person interview requirement for a range of visa applicants during the entire year in 2022, including for H-1B workers and students, many of whom are from India.
Wed, Apr 01, 2020
"We have written a letter asking that the H-1B & H-2B visa programme be suspended for this year due to the economic fallout from the coronavirus. Letters have been sent to the office of the President, to his Chief of Staff, & to all members of congress," the organisation said.
Fri, Jun 09, 2017
India's homegrown IT major Wipro in its filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission said the US president Donald Trump's administration and regulations could be a potential threat to its growth.
Thu, Jun 08, 2017
While speaking at the Morgan Stanley 19th Annual India Summit on Wednesday, Infosys COO UB Pravin Rao said that the company remains "committed" to its guidance of 6.5-8.5% revenue growth this year even as some clients ask for projects to be carried out at 30-40% lower costs than before.
Tue, Jun 06, 2017
Top seven Indian-based outsourcing companies in the US received fewer H-1B visas in 2016 as compared to 2015, and as a group their numbers dropped 37 %, according to a new report.
Sun, Jun 04, 2017
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) applied for only a third of the H-1B work visas this year compared to 2015, helped by increased hiring from engineering campuses and B-schools in the US.
Wed, May 31, 2017
India contact WTO for solving H1B issue. Watch this special segment and get to know more here.
Mon, May 29, 2017
According to experts, the IT industry in India will continue to see the layoffs for the next 18 months at the low-end skills on back of automation taking over the routine tasks like application maintenance, bug fixing, manual testing, among others.
Sat, May 27, 2017
US Congressmen Erik Paulsen and Mike Quigley have introduced a bill that seeks exemption for foreign-born persons with an American PhD in science, technology, engineering or mathematics from the limits on the number of employment-based green cards and H-1B visas awarded annually.
Sun, May 21, 2017
After a layoffs in India and and visa curbs in the US, IT industry body Nasscom has stepped up its lobbying with America and has paid a total amount of $1,50,000 (nearly Rs 1 crore) to two registered lobbyists in the country in the first quarter (Q1) of 2017.
Sat, May 20, 2017
Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has said on Saturday that the number of H-1B visas for Indian IT professionals would not come down adding further that the US is correcting its present lottery system of awarding visas.
Sat, May 13, 2017
According to the news report, nearly two lakh jobs are at stake, with big-ticket companies like Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro, Tech Mahindra, others as they looking to hand over pink slips to incumbent employees and hire fewer talent.
Fri, May 12, 2017
President Donald Trump has said that he wants to stop illegal immigration into the US and called for a merit-based immigration system that could benefit high-tech professionals from countries like India.
Sat, May 06, 2017
The US Department of Labour in a letter has said that the Department (of labour) lacks the authority to alter the employers' ability to take advantage of the four-tiered prevailing wage structure currently used by employers in H-I B Labour Condition Applications.
Wed, May 03, 2017
The US president Donald Trump's administration has welcomed Infosys latest decision to hire 10,000 workers in the US stating that it was a result of the US government's "pro-growth economic agenda."
Sat, Apr 29, 2017
However, he observed that "we need not worry too much about the visa restrictions as we will have ample opportunities here itself".
Wed, Apr 26, 2017
With US tightening its restrictions on Indian employees holding H-1B visas, we could see a lot of them being sent home after their visa expires.
Tue, Apr 25, 2017
Chief Economic Advisor Arvind Subramanian said that 50-60% of all India's exports of services goes to the US.
"We greatly value Indian companies' continued investment in the US economy, which also, of course, supports thousands of US jobs," Toner said.
Mon, Apr 24, 2017
It said that the US Department of Labor estimates that there will be about 2.4 million unfilled science, technology, engineering and mathamatics (STEM) jobs by 2018.
A US government official named TCS, Infosys and Cognizant for violating H-1B visa norms in the US.
Sat, Apr 22, 2017
Jaitley on Friday met US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, the first cabinet-level interaction between the two countries under the Trump Administration.
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