Recently US officials accused TCS and Infosys occupied the majority of applicants for H1B visa to increase their chances in the lottery system.Now the lottery system has been scrapped off. Indian IT industry's apex organisation has said that TCS and Infosysoccupied only 8.8 per cent of the H-1B visas .
"Of the six Indian IT companies, software majors TCS (Tata Consultancy Services) and Infosys received 7,504 H-1B visas in FY 2015, which is 8.8 per cent of the total H-1B visas," said the National Association of Software Services and Companies (Nasscom) in a statement here..
US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to reform the H-1B visas norms by scrapping out the lottery system with a merit-based immigration policy. Nirmala Sitharaman said India is taking up its concerns with the US on the H-1B visa issue and is not biased about individual companies.
"No one is questioning America's sovereign right to issue visas... we're only talking about their commitments made in their understanding with us on issuing visas to Indian professionals. There is no talk of individual companies," she said.
