Interestingly, Peter Bendor-Samuel, chief executive of global IT research firm Everest Group, says Indian firms can probably “get one last bite” of the H-1B visa lottery “apple”.
“Indian firms are moving to address their H-1B dependent workforce issues by increasing their hiring of experienced US workers and recruiting from US universities. Firms like Wipro are more advanced in this process and have already made substantial progress. However, I would stress that all of the Indian firms are still active in the H-1B lottery and will take as many of these as they can, but expect that the numbers will decline,” points out Bendor-Samuel.
