Salil Parekh, the CEO and managing director of Infosys, strongly denied rumors on social media that a business employee had been arrested and deported by the United States.
Parekh addressed the matter during Wednesday’s Q3 results call, stating that the rumors that have been going around online over the previous several days are untrue.
No US authorities have detained any Infosys employees. One of our workers was deported back to India after being refused admission into the United States a few months ago, according to Parekh.
The official announcement follows a “wild wild story” that user Chetan Anantharamu posted on social media site X. According to the post, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers summarily “picked up” a Mysuru-based Infosys employee who was working on a project in the United States.
According to the article, the employee had only two hours to pack his possessions and had to decide between being imprisoned or being deported right away. It claimed that announcements were made on the flight to make sure the worker would not escape and that he was publicly humiliated during a transit in Frankfurt.
The US continues to be the sector’s largest export market, thus the stability of the H-1B visa program is crucial as India’s USD 280 billion IT sector navigates major visa-related challenges and uncertainty surrounding global commerce. However, Indian businesses are dealing with increased scrutiny and growing expenses, such as required social media screenings, unpredictable processing delays, and a USD 1,00,000 price for new visas.
Infosys stated that despite these difficulties, it is still dedicated to its delivery approach, which employs a combination of US and Indian workers. Maintaining smooth labor mobility continues to be a top concern for IT majors as the sector pushes into artificial intelligence and expands global capability centers (GCC).
