Punjab, Oct. 10 -- India has formally objected to US Vice President JD Vance describing H-1B visa holders as "foreign indentured servants", calling the phrase "unwarranted" and saying it carries "painful historical and colonial legacy connotations" that are "deeply offensive".
What Vance said
The remark came in an attack on Microsoft, which he accused of favouring non-American staff. His arithmetic: the company cut 6,000 American jobs in a year while obtaining 6,300 H-1B visas and nearly 3,000 green cards.
It landed alongside a US decision to bar certain employers from the PERM programme - the labour certification step that begins the employment-based green card process. Reports say eight large technology and outsourcing companies were s...