Indian citizens are among the nationalities most commonly granted these visas, making roughly 67 per cent of the H1-B visas and 28 per cent of the L-1s (in 2013-14)
The US Congress in Dec doubled the cost of sponsoring workers under short-term H1B and L1 visas.
The Sierra Club is America's largest and most influential grassroots environmental organisation
Earlier the US had challenged India's imposition of domestic content requirements for solar cells and modules