Two More Bills Following The H1-B Visa Now Alarms Indian IT Industry In America
It’s not even a week, and Trump has unleashed his two more new bills that almost screw Indian IT Industry in the United States. This waves of bills on restricting the immigration are alarming the prospective employees and the current Indian students who were studying in America.
Recently Trump denounced the earlier salary cap which is $60,000 and amended the new bill which switches the salary cap to $130,000. The IT companies are now in ambiguity on dealing with these issues, there are only two options left, either to double the salaries of the Indian employees in America or to bring back them from America.
Of the two new bills, the first one asks for ban on the outsourcing act, technically ‘End Outsourcing Act‘.
Meanwhile, the second one is a 2007 Bill that has been reintroduced by Senators Chuck Grassley and Dick Durbin long time proponents of work visa reform. This Bill is to seek the revamp of the H-1B visa programme.
Meanwhile, regarding the two new laws, Grassley and Durbin announced on the former’s website that they will introduce the legislation to “prioritise American workers and restore fairness“ in visa programmes, which clearly indicates expelling the Indian employees and a further decline in the recruitments in future.
“Congress created these programmes to complement America’s high-skilled workforce, not replace it,“ Grassley said.
Grassley further added that certain popular IT firms are trying to exploit the programmes by cutting American workers and replacing them with foreign citizens who are willing to work for cheaper labour.
This new bill, introduced on January 20, aims to give preference only to the talented foreign students who were educated in the US.