India Plans To Oppose US Move To Set Occupation Specific Visa Regulations

22 Sep 2015

Our nation, India would oppose all moves of US for setting specific occupation ceilings, through its overall permits of work visa and it would initially raise matter US India Strategic & Commercial Dialogue (SCD) to be held on Tuesday, in Washington.

We would definitely raise concerns about visa fees, which are high and also about comparatively higher rate of rejection. We would also desire to be sure that, no  ceiling for industry specific for within overall visa cap working. We do not want  allotment of that particular kind, said the official of  commerce ministry on the anonymity condition.

Restriction are imposed by US & other varied western nation on mobility of Indian professionals who are skilled to live as well as work in specific nations, which have been long, concern for India.

The restrictive measures proposed for the  visas, non immigrant skilled , do threaten information technology of Indian firms because of various existing issues which are related to US H1B/L1 Visa fee hike, it has been stressful  grant process for visa ,  increased processing time as well as  rejection rates higher which needs solutions at the earliest .

We do hope for healthy dialogue among 2 sides about issues which have greater parity which are visa related as well  as immigration. She added, agreement totalization and co-operation on future areas which include cyber security and internet.

US and India require to hold dialogue separately on varied strategic as well as commercial issues. 

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