Trump wants it only for highly skilled jobs

Washington, November 9

The Donald Trump administration wants to make changes in the existing H-1B provisions for it to play a better role in attracting highly skilled foreign workers as opposed to what it has now evolved into an “outsourcing” role, the White House said on Thursday.

The US government is planning to revise the definition of specialty occupations under H-1B visas as well as the definition of employment under this foreign work visa category, which is popular among Indian companies.

Such a move, which is part of the Unified Fall Agenda of the Trump administration, will have a detrimental impact on the functioning of Indian IT companies in the US and also small and medium-sized contractual companies in the IT sector, which are mostly owned by Indian-Americans. — PTI