H-1B visas: Why Canada is the new America for IT professionals

BENGALURU: With the Trump administration tightening regulations for H-1B visa holders in the United States, software professionals, mostly Indian, are making a beeline to Canada, said two people with direct knowledge of the people movement.
A large chunk of technology professionals on H-1B visas in the US are Indians, with the country offering 85,000 H-1B visas each year.
The Canadian government has adopted a programme called Global Skills Strategy in 2017, which has set a target to welcome 3,10,000 new permanent residents in 2018 and 3,30,000 in 2019. According to a report called ‘Building a Nation of Innovators’ by the Canadian government, 40,833 jobs and 3,625 applications have been approved for high-skilled immigrants as of November 2018.