The development comes days before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit India ahead of PM Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump's meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan
The United States has de-linked H-1B visa and data localisation issues saying it has no plans to place caps on H-1B work visas for nations that "force foreign companies to store data locally."
The development comes days before US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is to visit India ahead of PM Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump's meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Japan.
The State Department in a statement said, "Trump Administration's Buy American Hire American Executive Order called for a broad review of US worker visa programs, including the H-1B program."
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Clarifying, the review is "not targeted at a specific country" and is "completely separate from our ongoing discussions with India about the importance of ensuring the free flow of data across borders," it said.
The US has raised concerns on India's data localisation along with other issues such as the use of China-based and -backed telecom giant Huawei.
Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar had said that India is engaging with the US administration and the US Congress on the H-1B visa issue. "We have emphasised time and again at high-level interaction, the contribution of Indian skilled professionals to growth and development of US economy," he had said.
While on data localisation he had said that New Delhi remains engaged with the US "and will see how it can dispel any misconceptions on the issue."
Data localisation deals with the data of a country's citizens and its collection and storage within or outside the country. New Delhi has been of the view that US companies should store data of Indian nationals in India itself.
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