H-1B visa application:These IT companies faced most rejection

NEW DELHI : With the United States government becoming tougher on immigration rules under Donald Trump’s rule, several Indian IT companies including Infosys and Wipro are having a tough time in sending their employees on H-1B visa to work in the US, according to a latest report.

Even as the denial rate for new H-1B visa applications was as high as 45% for India’s IT bellwether Infosys, Google was somehow lucky as only 3% of its petitions were rejected by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), according to National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP).

The data pertains to the first three quarters of FY 2019 (October-June). In the US, the financial calendar runs from October-September.