Indian Tech Workers are Stuck in Limbo

Some residents living in New York City could have purchased their apartment and pay as much as they are paying now for renting it.

But every month, they choose to throw in more money into the pockets of landlords.

For some, the reason behind this behavior is their migration status and their uncertain future in a country with a new administration in power.

These factors put together has held some back from choosing to make smart purchases and decisions like having children and making a new life.

In the United States, Indian nationals are the foreigners employed the most by firms getting the H-1B permits, receiving around 71% of employment opportunities available in 2015, a news report stated. Firms are giving information technology related jobs received around 66.5% of the H-1B permits in that year alone. Presently in the United States, more than 900,000 employees in the United States are H-1B permit holders, which accounts for around 12-13% of IT jobs in the nation, the news outlet said.

Sometime in the week, the torrid process of applying for the permit would begin again:

Firms would submit application for international employees at the start of April, and if the history of the previous years are anything to go by migration officials could place a limit on the application in less than a week, getting hundreds of thousands of application for a limited 85,000 permits. But there seems to be an aura of change in the air.

The government is considering a lot more choices to reshape the H-1B permit scheme, to water down the activities of firms that outsource jobs and support the employment of American employees.

The present system seems to work for the tech employees from India.

But a lot of people questioned by a news outlet disclosed that they are in support of a total change in the system that is focused mainly on each employee’s strength even if it means that some of their fellow workers would find it difficult to come into the United States.

The government has already refurbished the process of applying for the H-1B permit for this year. The alteration is a relatively typical one, and it comes after the hunts on illegal migrants were the target of the Donald Trump administration in the early days.

That has caused a degree of fear amongst Indian professionals and firms that seek to hire them, an attorney disclosed to reporters.