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The H-1B paradox: India needs to stop celebrating brain drain as ‘global success’

February 08, 2025 6:55 am

India invests heavily in nurturing talent through publicly-funded institutions like the IITs without its benefits, while the US gets to cherry-pick top Indian talent without bearing the cost of training it

C Raja Mohan writes: Delhi must look beyond H-1B

January 15, 2025 9:16 pm

Beyond H-1B visas, Trump is likely to bring three major changes to American technology policy – intensified competition with China, appointment of techno-libertarians, and domestic political divisions. India must prepare for these policy changes

'Prove haters wrong': Outgoing US Ambassador Garcetti backs Indian diaspora amidst H-1B debate

January 14, 2025 2:23 pm

Though he made no reference to Trump 2.0 or the recent backlash against the Indian community in the US over the H-1B programme, Garcetti spoke about proving “haters wrong” and called the four-million-strong Indian diaspora in the US the “greatest secret weapon” in the relationship.

Top 10 American companies sponsoring most H-1B visas: 4 Indian-origin tech companies featured

April 01, 2025 12:01 pm

Top H-1B Visa Issuing Companies: Notably, individuals from India are the largest beneficiaries of the H-1B program, with U.S. government data indicating that they have accounted for over 70% of all approved visa petitions each year since 2015.

ITServe seeks increase in H-1B quota to address massive shortage of highly skilled professionals in US

July 19, 2023 11:43 am

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.

President Biden urged to rescind Trump-era ban on H-1B and other foreign work visas

March 19, 2021 12:14 pm

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise. Technology companies depend on it to hire tens of thousands of employees each year from countries like India and China.

US announces USD 150 million for H1B One Workforce training programme

September 25, 2020 9:36 am

Through local public-private partnerships, the grantees will deploy training to provide individuals in their communities with skills necessary to advance career pathways to employment in middle-to-high-skilled H-1B occupations within key industry sectors.

10 per cent drop in H-1B visa approvals in 2018: US authorities

June 05, 2019 8:08 am

The US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) approved 335,000 H-1B visas, which included both new and renewable, in the fiscal year 2018. This was 10 per cent less from 373,400 in the previous fiscal year of 2017

Trump plans changes to H-1B program to bring 'potential path to citizenship' to skilled foreign workers

January 12, 2019 11:17 am

US companies often use H-1B visas to hire graduate-level workers in specialized fields including information technology, medicine, engineering and mathematics. But the visa program has also drawn criticism for being used heavily by foreign outsourcing companies that squeeze out American firms.

Disruptive moves on H-1B visa detrimental for India, US: Nasscom

January 03, 2018 6:46 pm

Estimates show that such a move could lead to deportation of over one million H-1B visa holders in the US -- many of them Indians -- who are waiting for their green cards.

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