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US Bill helps Indian software professionals

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WASHINGTON: The US Senate's approval of a Bill on Thursday that would give

citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants and double the number of H1-B

visas
from the present 65,000 to about 115,000 is widely expected to benefit

many Indian software professionals.

The Bill has also provision for increasing H1-B visas by 20 per cent increase

on an annual basis.

Many companies including Microsoft and Intel have been pressurizing the US

government raise the cap on H1-B visas and allow more skilled workers into the

country. They had even threatened to move jobs abroad if it does not increase

the H1-B visas.

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