India to take up proposed legislative measures on H-1B, L1 works visas with Trump administration

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PUTTUR: India will take up the issue of legislative measures proposed to curb misuse of H-1B and L1 work visas with the Donald Trump administrationas soon as it takes charge. Indian professionals use these visas significantly and India has been talking about these issues even with the Obama administration in the strategic commercial dialogue, union minister of state for commerce and industry Nirmala Sitharaman said on Thursday.

In an informal chat with TOI on the sidelines of a function organized by Vivekananda Vidyavardhaka Sangha here on Thursday, Nirmala reacting to statement of Senator Jeff Sessions, Donald Trump's nominee for the post of attorney general said, "Any move to make above work visas restrictive or make it expensive are not going to help. We have explained to the US implications of such a move in the strategic commercial dialogues that such a move will be counterproductive."

 

Investors who go and make investments there (in the US) and do the projects there particularly in IT and ITeS are actually generating employment in the US, for the US citizens, she said adding it is not just for the Indians or Indian companies taking Indians abroad. "I understand that a bill in the Congress is being taken up. There are things which we are definitely going to engage with the Trump administration, just as we have done with the Obama administration," she added.

Pointing that jobs created are going to benefit both the nations with Indian project and service exports, Nirmala said India will highlight the fact that Indian investments as revealed by reports of NASSCOM have stated that jobs have been created in the US. Senator Sessions had assured law makers that, "It's simply wrong to think that we're in totally open world and that any American with a job can be replaced if somebody in the world is willing to take a job for less pay."

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