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1. TCS, Infosys got only 8.8%
of total H-1B visas:
Nasscom's rebuttal to US
Indian IT firms account for less than 20 per cent of
the H-1B visas
Indian IT industry's apex organisation has said that the two top
companies -- TCS and Infosys -- got only 8.8 per cent of the H-1B visas
for placement of workers in the United States.

2. "Of the six Indian IT companies, software majors TCS (Tata
Consultancy Services) and Infosys received 7,504 H-1B visas in FY
2015, which is 8.8 per cent of the total H-1B visas," said the National
Association of Software Services and Companies (Nasscom) in a
statement here.
The apex body's clarification was in response to a US official last week
accusing top Indian IT firms TCS and Infosys of unfairly cornering
majority of the H-IB visas, by applying more in the lottery system.
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Only six Indian IT firms were among the top 20 recipients of the H-1B
visas in fiscal 2015 for their professionals to work in the US, said
Nasscom.

3. US President Donald Trump signed an executive order last week to
reform the H-1B visas norms by replacing the lottery system with a
merit-based immigration policy.
"Every reputable data source in the US has documented a growing
shortfall between the supply and demand for computer science majors
in the US workforce, especially in cutting-edge fields such as cloud, big
data, and mobile computing," asserted Nasscom.(read more)