{"id":139221,"date":"2017-10-26T08:44:39","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T03:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/?p=139221"},"modified":"2017-10-26T08:47:17","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T03:17:17","slug":"india-raises-h1-b-issue-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.telugu360.com\/india-raises-h1-b-issue-us\/","title":{"rendered":"India again raises H1-B issue with US"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">H1 B Issues<\/span><\/h1>\n<p>India on Wednesday again raised the issue of H1-B visas with the US when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discussed the significant contributions to the US economy made by skilled Indian professionals holding H1-B and L1 visas,&#8221; Sushma Swaraj said in a joint address to the media with Tillerson.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have also sought cooperation from Tillerson to address the pending issues related to totalisation and urged him that the US should not do anything that will hurt Indian interests,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump has called for stricter norms for issue of H1-B visas, largely availed by Indian IT firms. <\/p>\n<p>A private member&#8217;s bill was introduced earlier this year in the US Congress by Democrat Zoe Lofgren seeking to increase the minimum salary of an H1-B visa holder to a whopping $130,000 from the current minimum of $60,000.<\/p>\n<p>While Trump has spoken of restricting the H1-B visa system as part of his policy of putting Americans first, so far there have been no changes to it. This year, the same levels of 65,000 for general H1-B visas and 20,000 for those with advanced US degrees have been kept.<\/p>\n<p>Indians get most of the H1-B visas although there are no national quotas for the facility.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to a question, Sushma Swaraj said that while there had been no change made yet to the H1-B rules, if the private member&#8217;s bill in the US Congress got passed, Indian professionals would be impacted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;H1-B rules can be changed either by an executive order (issued by the US President) or by the US Congress and we are talking to both sides,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Sushma Swaraj earlier raised the issue with Tillerson at a meeting on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session last month.<\/p>\n<p>She also red-flagged it this month at a meeting with a visiting US Congressional delegation from the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H1 B Issues India on Wednesday again raised the issue of H1-B visas with the US when External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj met US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson here. &#8220;We discussed the significant contributions to the US economy made by skilled Indian professionals holding H1-B and L1 visas,&#8221; Sushma Swaraj said in a joint [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - 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