New H1B reform Bill discriminates against Indian IT firms: Chandrashekhar

The proposed Immigration Innovation (I-Squared) Act, a Bill introduced in the US Senate, advocates increasing the cap for H1B visas to 85,000, more liberal policies for the US green card, and allowing people with H4 visas (spouses and children of H1B holders) to work in the US. While these provisions make it attractive for Indian workers to migrate to the US on work visas, the Bill, which has support of Microsoft and Facebook, if passed in the current format discriminates against Indian information technology (IT) service firms, R CHANDRASHEKHAR, president of Nasscom, the apex association of the industry, tells Raghu