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Reading Between The Lines Of Trump’s H-1B Visa Plan
Donald Trump signing an executive order. (Andrew Harrer - Pool/GettyImages)
US President Donald Trump has been working hard at his campaign promise of ‘bringing jobs back to America’. His pledge to stop the misuse of visa programmes by companies to undercut American workers, seems to be now acquiring a shape.
During his campaign trail, Trump did not directly blame India or mention any specific visa category including H-1B visa programme. But he did share a platform with Leo Perrero, who had become the posterboy of the anger against IT outsourcing by American Technology companies. Leo Perrero lost his job when Disney decided to outsource its IT work and was replaced by Indian IT workers on H1B Visasa. It must also be added that on few occasions Trump has spoken in favour of bringing talent into the US and has gone on record saying that “people could come to this country legally”.
An overhaul in the process of H-1B visas allocation.
An Axios report says that the proposed new visa regime would mean replacing the current lottery system with one that prioritises visas for jobs promising the highest salaries.
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