{"id":1041964,"date":"2026-10-09T08:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041964"},"modified":"2026-10-09T08:29:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T02:59:25","slug":"immigration-skilled-talent-mobility-distinct-nasscom-as-us-suspends-it-firms-from-green-card-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/09\/immigration-skilled-talent-mobility-distinct-nasscom-as-us-suspends-it-firms-from-green-card-programme\/","title":{"rendered":"Immigration, skilled talent mobility distinct: Nasscom as US suspends IT firms from green card programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Industry body Nasscom on Thursday said that immigration and skilled talent mobility are &#8220;two distinct issues&#8221; that should not be viewed through the same lens, after the US suspended eight tech firms, including Tata, Infosys, HCL and Wipro, from a key green card programme. <\/p>\n<p>The latest action comes amid mounting challenges for Indian IT companies in the US, including tighter scrutiny of work visas and higher costs for H-1B applicants. <\/p>\n<p>The latest development in the US &#8211; the biggest market for the $300 billion Indian IT industry &#8211; adds to uncertainty for tech outsourcers that rely on cross-border movement of skilled professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Industry body Nasscom on Thursday said that immigration and skilled talent mobility are &#8220;two distinct issues&#8221; that should not be viewed through the same lens, after the US suspended eight tech firms, including Tata, Infosys, HCL and Wipro, from a key green card programme. The latest action comes amid mounting challenges for Indian IT companies in the US, including tighter scrutiny of work visas and higher costs for H-1B applicants. The latest development in the US &#8211; the biggest market for the $300 billion Indian IT industry &#8211; adds to uncertainty for tech outsourcers that rely on cross-border movement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041991,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041964\/revisions\/1041991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}