India asks the US to amend Border security bill

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Source: Economic Times of India

20 Aug, 2010, 10.44AM IST,PTI

WASHINGTON: The provisions of the border security bill, which allows massive increase in the fees on on categories of H-1B and L1 visas, is discriminatory against the Indian companies, India has said and asked the United States to amend it.

Indian Ambassador to the US Meera Shankar had lodged an official protest to the US Trade Representative Ambassador Ron Kirk in a letter dated August 9, about five days before Obama signed the border security bill into law ignoring India's concerns.

The letter, a copy of which is in possession with the PTI, has been sent this week to the US Congress informing the lawmakers the views of Indian Government on the issue.

The US President Barack Obama, last week, had signed the bill into the law.



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