BENGALURU: The Donald Trump management's proposal not to prolong H-1B visas of the ones waiting for their Green Cards (permanent residency), if authorised, will have major ramifications for Indian IT professionals, IT business frame Nasscom said. US competitiveness will also be significantly affected, Nasscom added.
Any such exchange in laws will create a sudden aid of professional professionals in the USA. For all the rhetoric of hiring in the community, America is noticed to be critically in need of STEM (science, era, engineering and arithmetic) talents, making it imperative for MNCs to send hundreds of professional employees on H-1B visas to the USA.
"The US has a big skill gap. Out of the 2 million vacant STEM jobs, 1 million are in IT related areas. All these measures, mostly political and emotive, aren't changing the skills gap and will hurt the American economy. All these factors have to be kept in mind by the US administration," said Nasscom president R Chandrasekhar.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration regulation follow at Cornell Law School, said that if the management goes ahead with the changes, companies and H-1B employees can sue to prevent the changes. Among other issues, they are going to argue that handiest the USA Congress could make such a drastic exchange. They can also say that it's unfair to switch the foundations mid-stream, while H-1B employees were ready patiently in line for years to get a green card, Yale-Loehr said.
It shall be several months earlier than any exchange if truth be told takes position, if at all.
"If the administration goes forward, they would first need to publish the proposed changes in a publication called the Federal Register. Then they would need to wait a month or longer to accept comments from the public about the proposed change. Then they would need to read and evaluate the comments before they could publish afinal rule," Yale-Loehr said. So the entire process would take several months.
Any such exchange in laws will create a sudden aid of professional professionals in the USA. For all the rhetoric of hiring in the community, America is noticed to be critically in need of STEM (science, era, engineering and arithmetic) talents, making it imperative for MNCs to send hundreds of professional employees on H-1B visas to the USA.
"The US has a big skill gap. Out of the 2 million vacant STEM jobs, 1 million are in IT related areas. All these measures, mostly political and emotive, aren't changing the skills gap and will hurt the American economy. All these factors have to be kept in mind by the US administration," said Nasscom president R Chandrasekhar.
Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration regulation follow at Cornell Law School, said that if the management goes ahead with the changes, companies and H-1B employees can sue to prevent the changes. Among other issues, they are going to argue that handiest the USA Congress could make such a drastic exchange. They can also say that it's unfair to switch the foundations mid-stream, while H-1B employees were ready patiently in line for years to get a green card, Yale-Loehr said.
It shall be several months earlier than any exchange if truth be told takes position, if at all.
"If the administration goes forward, they would first need to publish the proposed changes in a publication called the Federal Register. Then they would need to wait a month or longer to accept comments from the public about the proposed change. Then they would need to read and evaluate the comments before they could publish afinal rule," Yale-Loehr said. So the entire process would take several months.
Move on H-1B harmful for US too: Nasscom
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