>The move, however, was not solely targeted at India, the source said. >“The proposal is that any country that does data localization, then it (H-1B visas) wou

>The move, however, was not solely targeted at India, the source said. >“The proposal is that any country that does data localization, then it (H-1B visas) would be limited to about 15% of the quota It does sound targeted at India and perhaps China because they are the largest countries with English speaking populations and take a large percent of visas. I doubt the European countries or most other countries will be affected by this since they have way smaller populations and fewer people looking to work in the US. Anyway I am not totally opposed to restricting new H1B visas to 15% since work based green cards are 7% max per nationality causing long delays. They just need to make sure that people waiting for green cards close to a decade while on H1B are not affected by this. However, if this does happen, it will accelerate offshoring to India tremendously and end up benefiting work immigration friendly countries like Canada. Microsoft already has a large campus right across the border in Vancouver, and other companies will follow suit with setting up in Canada and India.