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H1-B visa row: Infosys to hire 10,000 Americans, open 4 US tech centres

Infosys relies heavily on the H1-B visa which Trump has ordered federal agencies to review

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Vishal Sikka. Photo: Suryakant Niwate

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IT services firm Infosys Ltd said late on Monday that it plans to hire 10,000 American workers in the next two years and open four technology centres in the United States, starting with a centre this August in Indiana, the home state of Vice President Mike Pence.

The move comes at a time when Infosys and some of its Indian peers such as Tata Consultancy Services and Wipro have become political targets in the United States for allegedly displacing jobs of American workers by flying in foreign workers on temporary visas to service their clients in the country.

The IT service firms