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Indians will have to wait for decades for Green Card; backlog for permanent residency expected to double by 2030
• 5 years agoIndian IT professionals, most of whom are highly skilled and come to the US mainly on the H-1B work visas, are the worst sufferers of the current immigration system which imposes a seven percent per country quota on allotment of the Green Card
Mid-cap IT sector ‘clicks’ with spate of deals; strong global growth possibilities in calendar year 2019
Amriteshwar Mathur • 6 years agoThe once-ignored mid-cap IT companies have seen a spate of deals over the past few weeks including hostile takeover offers and buyouts
Unavailability of American tech workers forces Indian IT firms in US to hoard employees and subcontractors
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThere were as many as 1,15,000 jobs a month available for application software developers. However, there were fewer than 32,000 recruitments.
Indian IT firms in US face talent crunch, poach employees from each other to work on projects
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe H-1B visa, popular among Indian IT professionals, is a non-immigrant visa that allows US companies to employ foreign workers in speciality occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise.
Narendra Modi calls for 'tax-plus one' system of honest tax payment, doing extra for society
• 6 years agoPrime minister Narendra Modi said, paying tax is 'prakriti' (natural), not paying tax is 'vikriti' (deformity). But paying tax plus doing more is 'sanskriti' (culture).
Half of Indian firms found wanting on data protection, storage, reveals survey
• 7 years agoEven as companies make a beeline for accumulating data, the survey said 45 percent of the organisations cannot analyse or categorise all the consumer data they store.
Cracking the digital code
Sponsored • 7 years agoH-1B visa: Donald Trump administration to hold back contentious plan that would deport 7.50 lakh Indian techies
• 7 years agoIn a relief for Indian techies, Donald Trump administration is said to not be considering any proposal that would force H-1B visa holders to leave the US.
H-1B visa: India 'very strongly' raises issue with US, says Suresh Prabhu
• 7 years agoBatting for Indian IT companies, the Union Minister also strongly raised the issue of totalisation
India has raised H-1B and L1 visa issues 'very strongly' with United States, says Suresh Prabhu
• 7 years agoIndia has "very strongly" raised the issue of H-1B and L1 visas with the United States, Union minister Suresh Prabhu said on Saturday,