{"id":898720,"date":"2025-01-23T08:06:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=898720"},"modified":"2025-01-23T08:06:47","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T02:36:47","slug":"h-1b-visas-not-related-to-immigration-they-fill-skills-gap-nasscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/23\/h-1b-visas-not-related-to-immigration-they-fill-skills-gap-nasscom\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visas not related to immigration, they fill skills gap: Nasscom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nasscom on Wednesday said H-1B visas have nothing to do with immigration issues and instead fill critical skills gap in the US, as the apex industry body asserted that technology will be the &#8220;lynchpin&#8221; of US economic growth, triggering continued need for &#8220;win-win partnerships&#8221; between companies on both sides. <\/p>\n<p>Nasscom vice president Shivendra Singh slammed &#8220;myth&#8221; that H-1B workers are cheap labour, replace American workers, or depress US salaries, and sought to assuage concerns around any adverse impact of President Donald Trump&#8217;s latest moves and orders on flow of Indian tech professionals to the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nasscom on Wednesday said H-1B visas have nothing to do with immigration issues and instead fill critical skills gap in the US, as the apex industry body asserted that technology will be the &#8220;lynchpin&#8221; of US economic growth, triggering continued need for &#8220;win-win partnerships&#8221; between companies on both sides. Nasscom vice president Shivendra Singh slammed &#8220;myth&#8221; that H-1B workers are cheap labour, replace American workers, or depress US salaries, and sought to assuage concerns around any adverse impact of President Donald Trump&#8217;s latest moves and orders on flow of Indian tech professionals to the US.<\/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":[37,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-898720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-business-standard-newspapers","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898720","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=898720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}