India trying to convince US that tapping into Indian talent is in mutual benefit: Jaishankar

External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar on Thursday told Parliament that India is trying to convince the US that tapping into the Indian talent

is in mutual benefit of the two countries.

"Issuing visas is the sovereign prerogative of other sates. But at the same time there are very important economic and business and social interests...We are constantly in touch with the American system, the American government, members of the Congress to convince them that tapping into the Indian talent pool is for our mutual benefit," Jaishankar told the Rajya Sabha.

He said India has been successful in convincing the US to a "large extent as actually if you look at the numbers, the number of HI-B visas has been going up in the last few years even though the total rejection rate has been coming down".

Replying to a question during Question Hour in the House whether seven Indian IT majors were disqualified for H-IB visa by the US, Jaishankar said there was no disqualification but the number of visas