At the (US) administrative level, someone is assuming that what the MNCs are doing need to be supported, but not the Indian tech companies. The India-based tech firms have not been getting (many) visas. But if you look deeper, you will see the bulk of the visas go to MNCs operating from India. “Traditionally, the feeling is that Indians have taken a lion’s share of visas. Nasscom says there are also major misconceptions around visas. IHS Markit Research said job creation in the US by Indian IT companies grew at an average annual rate of 3.8% from 2016 to 2018, faster than the 2.6% average annual employment growth of the industry of which it is a part of.
So a total of over 5 lakh direct and indirect jobs. In 2018, Indian IT employed nearly 1.8 lakh people in America and supported an additional 3.4 lakh jobs across the US economy. The Indian IT story is also compelling from the US job-creation standpoint. This is data from US research firm IHS Markit Research. Indian IT firms are estimated to have paid an average compensation of $96,300 to its US employees in 2018, higher than the average wage of $94,800 that IT professionals get in the US. And one data point seems to be particularly powerful. So when the US president comes visiting later this month, IT industry body Nasscom intends to disprove that. That has influenced the country’s immigration policy, especially under Donald Trump. MUMBAI: Some in the United States project Indian IT as sweatshops exporting armies of low-wage tech workers.