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Trump's H1B visa policy to hit third-party supplier base of Indian IT firms

US issues 85,000 H1B visas every year, including 20,000 for those with advanced degrees from US universities

India is one of the biggest beneficiaries of H1B visas
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India is one of the biggest beneficiaries of H1B visas

Bibhu MishraKiran Rathee Bengaluru/New Delhi
A new policy announced by US President Donald Trump’s administration is expected to hit the third-party supplier base of Indian information technology (IT) companies in the US. 

According to the policy, companies would now have to go the extra mile to prove that its H1B employees deployed at third-party worksites have “specific and non-qualifying speculative assignments in speciality occupation”. 

“If a petitioner is applying to extend H1B employment for a beneficiary who was placed at one or more third-party worksites during the course of past employment with the same petitioner, then the petitioner should also establish that the H1B requirements