TCS says green cards are peripheral as it expands US hiring and AI services

TCS CEO K Krithivasan emphasized that green-card sponsorship has never been a core element of the company’s staffing model, with only a small fraction of applications submitted by CHRO Sudeep Kunnumal’s team. Despite a US suspension of green-card processing, TCS will maintain its approach, relying increasingly on domestic hiring; locally hired workers now represent roughly 50 % of its US staff and the firm plans to recruit several thousand more in the coming years.

Indian-based employees typically work on US client projects for two to three years before returning, creating a continuous flow of talent. Fresh-graduate hiring is driven by demand, with recent intake of 10,000 compared with 14,000 in the prior quarter, and AI-focused graduates have risen by 50 %. TCS’s AI-related revenue now exceeds $3.1 billion, and it is pursuing new AI-driven deals to help clients become AI-first enterprises, expecting these opportunities to gradually offset traditional service margin pressure.