With the controversial position attain by the United States on the previous hike in H-1B visa fee and the outsourcing with the Obama administration, foreign secretary Nirupama Rao has evoked India’s concerns. To settle the agenda for President Obama’s upcoming visit to India in November, Nirupama Rao went to the Washington meeting with the senior member of the Obama administration. The U.S. secretary of State Hillary Clinton,the American counterpart U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns and members of the Commerce department was met by Rao.
She raised some issues in the meeting and these concerns is regarding with the Indian industry. Ted Strickland, Ohio Government of Democratic Party restricted outsourcing on August arguing that this damaged business consequences and eroded economic growth for his country. Due to this action, it increases L1 and H-1B visa fees for foreign firms, especially outsourcing giants from India as this controversy has been announced. The move will cost India’s IT industry with $200 million per year and it will ruin the U.S. and India’s economic partnership.
The ban will not have any bearing on US-Indo business partnership and proclaimed that the ties of both regions was imperative, said by Timothy Roemer, U.S. ambassador to India. However, searching to minimize the ban on outsourcing cut by the government of its Ohio State. The same actions in the past have not disturbed Indo-US partnership that has developed to a far greater stage, he added. As U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk meets Commerce Minister Anand Sharma at the joint Trade Policy Forum on September, outsourcing-related concerns are assumed to figure in larger detail.
Rao added that she raised that concerns in a number of meetings and she was able to deliver to them the issues that was very serious for the Indian industry and was noticed as an increase in protectionist sentiment in the United States, they wanted an answer in that issue. However, the sense that they are in the meeting was the relationship of the U.S. and India has obtained a relevance and a dimension that involves a number of fields and concerns that need to solve and to know the purpose of the partnership.
She added that the U.S. and India are both against terrorism, and they are very similar when it the topic is Afghanistan. They are both against in extremism and they observe the need to overcome it, aside from that they are for democratic, development and stability in Afghanistan and the improvement they gave in that region. She saw growing convergence instead of the differences.
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