Explained: How Vivek Ramaswamy’s H-1B Reform Plan Will Impact Indians
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The H1B visa offers several advantages to its holder. (Representational)New Delhi: India-American Republican presidential aspirant Vivek Ramaswamy has promised to "gut" the H-1 B visa programme if elected to the office.Calling it "indentured servitude", Mr Ramaswamy asserted that the lottery-based system to grant the special visa will be replaced with a more meritocratic process.Mr Ramaswamy, who himself has used the H-1 visa programme 29 times to hire employees for his former company Roivant Sciences between 2018 and 2023, called the system for "everyone involved"."The lottery system needs to be replaced by actual meritocratic admission. It's a form of indentured servitude that only accrues to the benefit of the company that sponsored an H-1B immigrant. I'll gut it," he said in a...