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Fearing tighter US visa regime, Indian IT firms rush to hire, acquire
They are also turning to higher-tech services such as automation, cloud computing and AI platforms
Add BT as a preferred sourcePublished Mon, Nov 28, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Bengaluru
ANTICIPATING a more protectionist US technology visa programme under a Donald Trump administration, India's US$150 billion IT services sector will speed up acquisitions in the United States and recruit more heavily from college campuses there.
Indian companies including Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), Infosys and Wipro have long used H1-B skilled worker visas to fly computer engineers to the US, their largest overseas market, temporarily to service clients.
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