Bangalore: India has sought Congressional help in addressing its concerns over what it calls certain ‘discriminatory provisions’ of the comprehensive immigration bill, which if passed into law would adversely impact Indian IT companies. “One of the concerns, Indian businesses are seeking to address, and where the US Congress can help them, is about the current debate, on restrictions on the movement of high-skilled non-immigrant professionals employed by Indian IT companies into the United States,” Taranjit Singh Sandhu, Charges d’Affaires of the Indian Embassy in the US, said.

“These discriminatory provisions, if they are enacted, will essentially create a market access barrier for Indian IT companies in the US and will not only cause damage to their operations, but will also impact the ability of US companies, who depend on their services to innovate, grow and be competitive and affect the local economies,” Sandhu said yesterday. He was addressing the ‘Indian American Meetup’ event organized by the GOP Conference and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, at the Capitol Hill.

The Indian IT industry has led the way in strengthening the India-US trade and investment relationship Sandhu said, adding that today companies like TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL employ well over 50,000 US citizens, and support more than 280,000 other local US jobs. “They are integral, to the operations of many US companies, helping them in developing new products and improving operations and efficiencies,” he argued. Trade and economic partnership remains a central pillar of expanding India-US ties, creating jobs for hundreds of thousands of people in both countries, he said.
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