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bart95

(488 posts) Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:23 AM Mar 2012

Bill soon to allow more Indians to visit US

New York, March 25
Amid Indian IT firms' concerns over restrictive US visa policies for their employees, a top American senator has assured that he is working on a bipartisan bill that will reform immigration laws and allow more Indians to come to America.

Influential US Senator from New York Chuck Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid met noted Indian-American hotelier and Chairman of Indian-American Democrats Sant Singh Chatwal at his Manhattan hotel here on Friday.

During the nearly hour-long meeting, the three discussed India-US bilateral relations, with Chatwal raising concerns of Indian IT corporations regarding problems faced by them in obtaining work visas like H1B and L1 for their employees.

Reid and Schumer expressed appreciation for the contribution made by the growing Indian-American community to the American economy, saying concerns regarding the visas are being addressed and taken care of.

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2012/20120326/main5.htm

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Bill soon to allow more Indians to visit US (Original Post) bart95 Mar 2012 OP

Glad to see the senate is looking out for American workers RZM Mar 2012 #1

2 top Democrats looking out for us hootinholler Mar 2012 #6

Is there a shortage of high level IT workers here? Honeycombe8 Mar 2012 #2

WHY????? Skittles Mar 2012 #3

Funny how Americans can't go to India for IT jobs Zalatix Mar 2012 #4

There is no way I'd want to work in India Larkspur Mar 2012 #5

Can't go to India, can't find a job here Zalatix Mar 2012 #7

No! We really don't need this. JDPriestly Mar 2012 #8

why do we put up with this? bart95 Mar 2012 #9

RZM

(8,556 posts)

1. Glad to see the senate is looking out for American workers

Reply to bart95 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:26 AM

Mar 2012

Same story, different day.

hootinholler

(26,449 posts)

6. 2 top Democrats looking out for us

Reply to RZM (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:25 AM

Mar 2012

Glad to know they're on the job.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)

2. Is there a shortage of high level IT workers here?

Reply to bart95 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:31 AM

Mar 2012

If not, Schumer will be in trouble with his constituency, and this whole thing doesn't make sense at all. This would take money straight out of the hands of Americans.

Skittles

(153,169 posts)

3. WHY?????

Reply to bart95 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:00 AM

Mar 2012

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)

4. Funny how Americans can't go to India for IT jobs

Reply to bart95 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:11 AM

Mar 2012

Any globalists want to come by and explain why we should keep excluding American workers from the global market?

Larkspur

(12,804 posts)

5. There is no way I'd want to work in India

Reply to Zalatix (Reply #4)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:22 AM

Mar 2012

I'm female and 50 years old. My company won't allow US female workers to visit their site in Bangalore alone due to security risks for women.
While I would find their historic places intriguing, I don't like their food, so I'd personally have a hard time staying there.
One of my US male colleagues who visited India for a month a couple years ago was told which hotels to use because they could not guarantee the quality of the water in certain ones. Parasites could infect you while drinking or showering.

Anyway, I have pets at home and I could not stay away from them for a month or longer.

Zalatix

(8,994 posts)

7. Can't go to India, can't find a job here

Reply to Larkspur (Reply #5)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:28 AM

Mar 2012

Americans are pretty much getting squeezed out on both fronts.

I for one wouldn't want to be unemployed in either country. Homeless folks here have to contend with drug-resistant tuberculosis...

JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)

8. No! We really don't need this.

Reply to bart95 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 01:53 AM

Mar 2012

Nothing against Indians, but qualified Americans can't get jobs. So why are we letting Indians and other workers in?

bart95

(488 posts)

9. why do we put up with this?

Reply to bart95 (Original post)

Mon Mar 26, 2012, 12:06 PM

Mar 2012

anyone else notice, that looking out for American workers seems to have been dropped from the democratic party platform?

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