Trump picks opponent of H1B visas |
President-elect Donald Trump has picked Senator Jeff Sessions, a hardliner on immigration and a fierce critic of H-1B visas — used by US companies to hire highly skilled foreigners, including many from India — as his attorney general. Sessions had introduced a legislation in 2015, making H-1B hires prohibitively expensive for employers to force them to use local hands, and backed a legislation that sought to bring down the annual cap for the visa category from 65,000 to 50,000.While it’s still unclear how his appointment as the attorney general could directly impact the H-1B programme, which is a massive source of revenue for Indian IT companies, his position as a member of Trump’s core team could signal trouble. India worries about protectionist moves around the programme, and has dragged the US to the World Trade Organization for substantially hiking application fees for H-1B and L-1 — another visa programme for skilled workers — in 2016.
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