UK MPs want fast-track visa services for Indians
Recalling the historic contribution of India and other Commonwealth countries , 45 ruling Conservative MPs have called for fast-track visa services to their citizens as Brexit drives Britain to look for newer trade relationships outside Europe. In a letter to Home secretary Amber Rudd on Sunday, the MPs urged her to “extend the hand of friendship […]
Furore over US visa policy for parliamentarians
ISLAMABAD: Senate Chairman Raza Rabbani announced a boycott of the UN-sponsored International Parliamentary Union (IPU) being held in New York next week, after the US failed to issue a visa to Deputy Chairman Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Haideri, who was supposed to represent Pakistan at the forum. The chairman has also directed that no Senate delegation […]
To Draw Foreign Talent, Japan Eases Permanent Visa Norms
At a time when lawmakers in US are planning to impose curbs on H-1B visas, Japan is easing the process of issuance of green cards to highly skilled professionals in IT and other cutting edge fields from foreign countries, including India. “We are trying to make Japanese business environment better for the foreign companies through […]
India’s techies fear US crackdown on high-skilled visas
Mumbai: Indian student Sunny Nair has always dreamt of working for a technology giant in the United States but fears that President Donald Trump will crush his life ambition. The 19-year-old worries that Trump’s crackdown on immigration will include restrictions on so-called H-1B visas, which India’s IT sector uses to send thousands of highly-skilled workers […]
The silver lining in H1B visa reforms
While America’s proposed immigration reforms could be very challenging in the short term for India’s information technology (IT) services companies, they could also be the catalyst for the transformation they must make to survive. There is a powerful historical precedent for this. Click here to read more… Credit: livemint.com
Google CEO Sundar Pichai criticises Trump’s immigration order
SAN FRANCISCO: Google’s India-born Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Saturday critcised US President Donald Trump’s executive order suspending the entry of people from Muslim-majority countries to the United States and stressed its negative influence on US attractiveness for foreign talent. Pichai suggested that the ban could affect at least 187 Google employees as the Internet […]
Trump’s immigration order sends shock waves across Indian IT industry
Following U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration order, the Indian technology industry is gripped with fear as shock waves spread across India’s silicon city. While the U.S. doesn’t hire on a large scale from the seven Muslim-majority countries set to be affected by Trump’s order – the Indian tech industry, that sends hundreds of employees to […]
Brexit trade deal with India ‘at risk’ without visa reform
One of Britain’s most important post-Brexit trade partnerships+ could be at risk due to Theresa May’s refusal to reform visa restrictions for Indian citizens. The British Prime Minister has insisted leaving the EU would allow Britain to find other partners abroad and India, the world’s fastest growing major economy, was the first country she visited, […]
Indian Outsourcing Firms Prep for Curbs on H-1B Visa Workers Under Trump
NEW DELHI—President-elect Donald Trump doesn’t take office in Washington until Friday, but he is already forcing firms in India’s mammoth $108 billion technology-outsourcing industry to rethink their hiring practices in the U.S., their largest market. While Mr. Trump has chastised U.S. firms for offshoring American jobs, Indian outsourcing firms could be set to see renewed […]
H1B visas: Radical changes proposed by Donald Trump administration
New Delhi: President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to augment jobs in the US during his campaign. To achieve this, he has unequivocally stated that his administration will prevent outsourcing as well as revamp the H1B visa programme that allows US companies to hire high-skilled foreign workers at the cost of locals. Trump’s transition team is […]
Infosys, TCS, Wipro stocks in focus as US plans tougher H1-B visa norms
Stocks of information technology (IT) companies such as Infosys, TCS and Wipro continue to remain in focus over rising concerns of a clampdown by the US Congress over H1-B visas. Infosys’ stock prices were marginally down by less than a percent on Monday morning and TCS’ stock prices were stable. Click here to read more… […]
Indian Govt announces changes in visa rules
MUSCAT – The Indian government has announced changes in the existing rules in order to liberalise, simplify and rationalise the visa regime to encourage more foreign nationals including Omanis, to visit India for tourism, business and other purposes. As part of this policy initiative, the government has modified the existing ‘e-Tourist Visa’ scheme. In a […]
As bodies pile up, Indian embassy stresses on legal Gulf immigration
HYDERABAD: The issue of bodies of Indians rotting in morgues in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries has opened another can of worms -the extent of human trafficking, especially from Hyderabad and Telegana districts there. When TOI, in its edition dated December 12, highlighted the issue Indians, particularly those from the Telugu states, put up […]
Indian pleads guilty for H-1B visa fraud in US
WASHINGTON: A 32-year-old Indian-origin immigration manager for an IT company has pleaded guilty for committing H-1B visa fraud in the US. Hari Karne, who hails from Hyderabad, faces a maximum potential penalty of five years in prison and a US $250,000 fine if convicted. According to federal prosecutors, Karne’s conspirators recruited foreign workers with purported […]
Trump says will investigate visa abuses; Indian workers may face tough scrutiny
US president-elect Donald Trump has said that one of his first executive orders after assuming office would be to order investigation into all visas abuses that undermine jobs for the American worker, indicating that foreigner workers, including Indians, may face tough scrutiny under his administration. While Trump did not identify or name any particular visa […]
Immigration Seminar: “Mass Deportations Unlikely under Donald Trump”
By Pramod Kulkarni HOUSTON: The unexpected election of Donald Trump has exacerbated tensions felt among South Asians, who are dealing with complex paperwork processes associated with obtaining a green card and permanent citizenship. Trump has talked about building a wall to keep out Mexican illegals, mass deportation of undocumented workers, and putting barriers against outsourcing. […]
Trump visa vow test for India
Trump said the creation and return of jobs to the US would be the single biggest agenda of the first 100 days of his administration, in a 2.38-minute video uploaded online on Tuesday morning, his first policy declaration since his November 8 election. His comments came a day after India’s foreign secretary S. Jaishankar hinted […]
Tech worker visas face uncertain future under Trump, Jeff Sessions
The main US visa program for technology workers could face renewed scrutiny under President-elect Donald Trump+ and his proposed Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions, a long-time critic of the skilled-worker program. H-1B visas+ admit 65,000 workers and another 20,000 graduate student workers each year. The tech industry, which has lobbied to expand the program, may […]
India to raise work permit issue with Canada, U.K.
India will raise its concerns over restrictions on the movement of foreign skilled workers for short-term duration work with Britain and Canada, as these curbs are affecting the Indian IT industry. Canada, U.K., the U.S, Germany and Switzerland are the top five markets for Indian IT firms. The annual revenue of Indian IT firms from […]
India warns UK immigration policy could wreck trade deal
Theresa May’s hopes of a post-Brexit trade deal with India suffered a hammer blow from Delhi as the prime minister prepared to make her first official visit to the country. A spokesman for India’s minister of external affairs suggested that a policy brought in by May as home secretary restricting the right of Indian students […]
