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Data Localization = Caps On H-1B Visas

posted by Fnord666 on Friday June 21 2019, @02:15PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-visa-for-master-card-data dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

The US is looking to cap the number of H-1B visas granted to India due to recently enacted "data localization" laws.

India, which has upset firms such as Mastercard and irked the U.S. government with stringent new rules on data storage, is the largest recipient of these temporary visas, most of them to workers at big Indian technology firms. India receives about 70% of all US H-1B visas, but would be limited to between 10% and 15% of the annual quota.

[...]Most affected by any such caps would be India’s more than $150 billion IT sector, including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and Infosys Ltd, which uses H-1B visas to fly engineers and developers to service clients in the United States, its biggest market. Major Silicon Valley tech companies also hire workers using the visas.

Shares in Indian IT firms fell in early trade on Thursday after the Reuters story. Wipro Ltd fell around 4%, while Infosys and TCS fell more than 2% each. The broader Nifty IT index’s 1.8% fall was its biggest intraday percentage decline in over five weeks.

Also at: Fortune, The Economic Times (India), and MSN.

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  • (Score: 2) by Hyperturtle on Friday June 21 2019, @03:02PM (5 children)

    by Hyperturtle (2824) on Friday June 21 2019, @03:02PM (#858561)

    But for some reason I expect near-sourcing or call centers in Mexico and Canada to fill the gaps created.

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  • (Score: 2) by EvilSS on Friday June 21 2019, @03:28PM (2 children)

    by EvilSS (1456) Subscriber Badge on Friday June 21 2019, @03:28PM (#858574)
    Probably (although you don't need H1Bs for call centers, just people working inside the US borders). Companies like Softtek already source their guys from Latin America.

    • (Score: 2) by RamiK on Friday June 21 2019, @05:30PM (1 child)

      by RamiK (1813) on Friday June 21 2019, @05:30PM (#858617)

      you don't need H1Bs for call centers, just people working inside the US borders

      Why would you need local tech support? https://www.outsource2india.com/callcenter/site/technical-support.asp [outsource2india.com]

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 22 2019, @09:43AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 22 2019, @09:43AM (#858801)

        And then (somehow nobody can add 2 plus 2)... spam and scam calls from: India / Pakistan. duh!
        your outsourced dollars at work

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @04:15PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday June 21 2019, @04:15PM (#858594)

    But for some reason I expect near-sourcing or call centers in Mexico and Canada to fill the gaps created.

    Not if the tweeter-in-chief puts tariffs on each phone call. /s

    This doesn't affect the horrible customer service sacrifice centers in India. It reduces the number of workers from India who can replace workers here in the US at a fraction of the cost.

  • (Score: 1) by fustakrakich on Friday June 21 2019, @08:14PM

    by fustakrakich (6150) on Friday June 21 2019, @08:14PM (#858652) Journal

    That's ok. A lot more people speak Spanish than Hindi. And the Canadians' English is damn near as good as ours.

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