In order to tackle the issue of increasing visa rejections by the US, country's largest software exporter TCS said it is working on alternatives like raising local hiring at onsites and planning visas much in advance.

"Visa rejections have gone up... The whole visa issue is becoming serio US and we need to see how we are going to execute a plan. Be it increasing local recruitment, planning visas much in advance, there are many things," TCS CEO and MD N Chandrasekaran told reporters here.