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Some Relief for India - Merit-based immigration system for H-1B and L-1 visas

Posted on: 01/Mar/2017 3:24:01 PM
Today (1st March), the US President Donald Trump has proposed a new merit-based immigration system. This could benefit high-tech professionals from countries like India.

In his 1st address to the Congress, the US President noted that nations around the world, like Canada, Australia, and many others have a merit-based immigration system.

This merit-based system will save countless dollars and raise workers wages. Before presenting this proposal, he invoked the memory and words of late president Abraham Lincoln, saying, Lincoln was right a and it is the time we heeded his words.

He said that protecting US workers also means reforming our system of legal immigration. The current, outdated system depresses wages for our poorest workers and puts great pressure on taxpayers.

The President believes that real and positive immigration reform is possible as long as it focuses on the goals to improve jobs and wages for Americans to strengthen the countrys security and to restore respect for laws.

Indian IT professionals account for the largest number of foreign nationals coming to the US on H-1B visas.

Indians also account for a significantly large number of foreign workers coming to the US as scientists, doctors, engineers and other highly-skilled professionals.