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1. Democratic nominee Hillary

1. It seemed highly unlikely a

Clinton could become the

year ago, but Republican

rst ever
woman President of
DONALD
TRUMP
the United States in January

could very well become the

next year. Unlike her

45th President of the United

Republican rival Donald

States in January next year.

Trump, Clinton is a veteran

From an Indian perspective,

politician who has served

what exactly would that

both as a US Senator and as

entail? Here's a ve-point

US President Barack

overview of the impact a

Obama's Secretary of State.

Trump Presidency could

She knows how things work

have on India.

at the White House, having

been First Lady during her
husband Bill's two terms as
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2. H1B VISAS

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2. FASTER FAMILY VISA

PROCESSING

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Trump has said he's in favour

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of retaining highly talented

In January, Clinton promised
to take steps to reduce the
family visa backlog, saying
that two-fths of all
applicants were from the
Asia-Pacic region (which
includes India), PTI
reported.Many families have
had to endure years of
separation as a consequence
of this backlog, and Clinton
said that she would "expand
fee waivers" and "increase
access to language
programmes" in order to help
prospective US citizens.

people in the US - as long as

they are in the country
legally - and has even
specically mentioned
Indians while saying that
smart foreign students
educated in the US should
be allowed to remain there,
according to PTI reports.
But a policy proposal on

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Trump's website says the

"prevailing wage" paid to H1B
workers be increased to put
pressure on US rms to look
within the US for talent. It

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says "more than half of H-1B

visas are issued for the

3. GREEN CARDS

'STAPLED' TO HIGHER
STEM DEGREES

program's lowest allowable

wage level, and more than
eighty percent for its bottom
two." Increasing the
prevailing wage "will improve
the number of black,
Hispanic and female workers
in Silicon Valley who have
been passed over in favor of
the H-1B program," the
proposal says. Trump has
also said American
companies using visas like
the H1B should rst hire US
workers before bringing in
overseas talent.

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Trump has said the "H-1B

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program is neither highskilled nor immigration", and

that he "will end forever the
use of the H-1B as a cheap
labor program."

3. PAKISTAN AND

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Hillary Clinton says in her

manifesto that she'll "staple"

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Mathematics (STEM). If she

keeps her promise, Indian

Trump has called Pakistan

students in US colleges who

"probably the most

earn Master's degrees and

dangerous" nation in the

PhDs in academic disciplines

world, and has suggested

such as aerospace

that the US can work with

engineering or applied

India to keep Pakistan in

mathematics will

check. "You have to get India

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involved ... They have their

permanent resident status.

own nukes and have a very

This can, of course, be

powerful army. They seem to

viewed in two ways - as

be the real check ... I think

giving Indian scholars better

we have to deal very closely

opportunities to contribute to

with India to deal with it

their elds, or as catalyzing

(Pakistan)," Trump said last

'brain drain.'

September. So a Trump-led
US government could be
open to a rapprochement

4. 'START-UP VISAS'

with India on issues such as

Pakistan-sponsored terror in
Jammu and Kashmir.

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4. CHINA'S TRADE LOSS

INDIA'S GAIN?

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Under a Clinton

In his manifesto, Trump vows

Administration, foreign

to work to rebalance the US-

entrepreneurs may be able

China trade decit, and bring

to apply for 'start-up visas'

back millions of

and launch companies in

manufacturing jobs to the

"technology-oriented

US. Writing for the Economic

globally traded sectors" in

Times, former US diplomat

the US, her manifesto says.

William H Avery says Trump's

The entrepreneurs would

best strategy would be to

need their US investors to

"oset Asia's (especially

pledge their nancial support

China's) labour cost

to get the visa, and meet

advantage in manufacturing

employment and

with a combination of tari

performance targets to be

and non-tari barriers." Doing

eligible for permanent

so would aect India less

residency. Clinton's focus, of

than China, as it would be

course, is on creating more

harder to place taris on IT

jobs for Americans, but that

services - India's strength -

doesn't change the fact that

than on China's

this a tantalizing prospect for

manufactured goods, Avery

Indian entrepreneurs.

suggests. "China's loss is

According to research by the

India's gain," he concludes.

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National Foundation for

American Policy, immigrants
have founded more than half
(44 of 87) of America's

5. MAKE IN INDIA

startup companies valued at

$1 billion or more.

5. MAKE IN AMERICA, NOT

INDIA

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Like Donald Trump, Clinton

On the ip side, Trump's

has also made the US

determination to revitalize

manufacturing sector one of

the US manufacturing sector

the focal issues of her

may not be good news for

campaign. She says in her

American businesses

manifesto that she'll

interested in Prime Minister

discourage companies from

Narendra Modi's Make In

outsourcing jobs and capital,

India initiative.

and reward them for

returning jobs to the US. Two
of the policy changes she
proposes are removing tax

6. A WINDFALL FOR

breaks for US companies

INDIAN INVESTORS?

that send jobs abroad, and

imposing "an 'exit tax' on
companies that leave
America to lower their tax
burden." So Clinton, like her
Republican rival, could make
it more dicult for American
companies to accept Prime
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Minister Modi's invitation to

'Make In India.'

6. DOES CLINTON

SUPPORT H1B?

In his manifesto, Trump

pledges to "unleash
American ingenuity" and
make the US "the most
attractive place to invest in
the world" by lowering
Clinton's priority is
Comprehensive Immigration
Reform (CIR) - an overhaul of
the entire US Immigration
system, one of whose goals
is to provide undocumented
immigrants to the US a path

corporate tax rate to 15%

(from almost 39% as of
September 2016). Indian
companies exploring the
possibility of tapping into the
US market may nd this
proposition enticing.

to legal status and

citizenship. In an interview
with Vox.com in July, Clinton
said she didn't want to "mix"
CIR with "with other kinds of
changes in visas and other
concerns that particularly
high-value technical
companies have." She added
that "keeping pressure on
them helps us resolve the
bigger problem," and other
options could be explored
later.
While these comments must
have sounded like bad news
for US companies using H1B
visas to bring in highly-skilled
workers, Clinton said later in
the month that what she
wanted was a "truly
comprehensive" system for
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all kinds of immigrants,

including highly-skilled
workers.
Writing for the Economic
Times, immigration lawyer
and Brooklyn Law School
professor Cyrus D Mehta
says Clinton "will probably
support the H1B programme."
He says she will accept
compromises on H1B - such
as "increasing the H-1B cap
in exchange for imposing
certain restrictions on IT
companies" - if it will help her
make CIR a reality.

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