US immigration crackdown: How Indian IT giants have long prepared for this moment

Indian IT companies have reduced their dependence on US work visas, thanks to years of local hiring and expansion into ‘nearshore’ hubs. This has limited the immediate impact of the US’s latest green-card programme suspension.Long before the Donald Trump administration suspended several Indian IT companies from a key US green-card programme, these firms had begun reducing their dependence on American work visas, increasingly hiring locally and building delivery centres in countries closer to their biggest overseas market.