{"id":599,"date":"2007-01-29T20:21:25","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/29\/nasscom-hails-bush-comment-on-hi-b-visas\/"},"modified":"2007-01-29T20:21:25","modified_gmt":"2007-01-29T14:51:25","slug":"nasscom-hails-bush-comment-on-hi-b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/2007\/01\/29\/nasscom-hails-bush-comment-on-hi-b-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasscom hails Bush comment on HI-B visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President <strong>George W Bush&#8217;s<\/strong> reported comments on the US looking at the possibility of <strong>increasing the number of HI-B visas<\/strong> \u00e2\u20ac\u201d granted to <strong>Indian professionals<\/strong> to work in the US \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has received an enthusiastic response from Nasscom.<\/p>\n<p>The Nasscom President,<strong> Mr Kiran Karnik<\/strong>, told Business Line, &#8221; <strong>We welcome such an initiative. This step would be mutually beneficial to both the countries<\/strong>.&#8221; He said that last year the senate immigration Bill that dealt with the issue could <strong>not be converted into legislation due to problems of illegal immigrants.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Read More @ <span style=\"font-size: 12pt; font-family: \"Times New Roman\"\"><a target=\"new\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindubusinessline.com\/2007\/01\/27\/stories\/2007012702190700.htm\">The Hindu Business Line<\/a> <\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\">January 27, 2007<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President George W Bush&#8217;s reported comments on the US looking at the possibility of increasing the number of HI-B visas \u00e2\u20ac\u201d granted to Indian professionals to work in the US \u00e2\u20ac\u201d has received an enthusiastic response from Nasscom. The Nasscom President, Mr Kiran Karnik, told Business Line, &#8221; We welcome such an initiative. This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8,3,19],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-india","tag-internet","tag-media","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiragmehta.info\/chirag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}