Sunday, December 07, 2025 | 11:19 PM ISTहिंदी में पढें
Business Standard
Notification Icon
userprofile IconSearch

Infosys, TCS saw H-1B trouble looming even before Trump came to power in US

Infy CEO Sikka has said in April last year that he wanted to move co away from visa dependency

Image
premium

BS Web Team New Delhi
Even as the Trump administration accuses Infosys and TCS of unfairly cornering the lion's share of H-1B visas, the two Indian information technology (IT) majors have been reducing their dependency on the visa system from before Trump took office. 

“We continue to be influenced by the visa issue situation. Our view is to become independent of visas and hire locally,” Vishal Sikka, chief executive officer of Infosys had told Business Standard in April 2016. (Read more)

Both companies appear to have had sensed the changing political mood in Washington in advance of Trump's victory, and, in fact when Trump's