Hyderabad sources have stated that the proposal being circulated in the Department of Homeland Security of the United States government to end the provision of granting extensions to H-1B visas holders waiting for their green cards is causing some amount of insecurity among that section of the Indian diaspora.
Meanwhile the impact will be felt most by Telugu speaking people as a large number of visas and green card applications are issued to people from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and these two states send the most number of students to the US every year.
Moreover the techies in the US are certain that any
law that the Trump administration will bring in cannot be done at the drop of a
hat, but will take at least two years. Further according to a widely
circulated LinkedIn post among the Telugu diaspora by Rajiv Khanna, Managing
Attorney of Immigration.com, discontinuing H-1B extensions beyond six years is
easier.
