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Posted on 10/01/2025 4:15:12 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Confusion and fear gripped H-1B visa holders over the weekend as a sudden US policy change forced some to choose between family commitments abroad and their careers in the United States. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a USD 100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, part of a broader immigration crackdown, sent shockwaves through the tech and finance sectors, prompting workers from India and China to abandon travel plans and rush back to the US.
At San Francisco airport, an engineer whose wife was scheduled to fly to Dubai described the impossible decision he faced. “It is a situation where we had to choose between family and staying here," he said. After learning of the new rule, several Indian passengers demanded to deplane, causing the Emirates flight to be delayed by more than three hours. Ultimately, his wife, also an H-1B holder, returned to India to care for her sick mother. “It's quite tragic. We have built a life here,” he told Reuters.
Others recounted similar upheaval online. On the Chinese social media app Rednote, a woman using the handle “Emily's Life in NY” described boarding a United Airlines flight from New York to Paris, only to be forced back to the gate after her company’s lawyers instructed employees abroad to return. “My feelings are a mix of disappointment, sadness, and frustration,” she said, explaining that she had to cancel plans with friends, including visitors from China.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesofindia.indiatimes.com ...
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India’s tragedy is my overwhelming joy!!! God bless Donald Trump!!! No greater patriot in our time:s
Uck Findia!
These stories make it like Christmas every day!
India job stealers I got your upheaval right here.
Thanks for posting this uplifting story.
I think I’ll have steak to celebrate.
What would make it more like Christmas every day would be you and freeploadamusmaximus getting your names on the FR donations board for Q4 2025!
That's not tragic at all. You were not meant to be here. We did not ask you to come here. You have a country you can go back to.
Or you could get your name on the FR Q4 donations board to celebrate.
Margaret looks like Tricki Woo [who is a pampered Pekingese dog from the All Creatures Great and Small books and TV series].
I want every Pajeet deported from America.
Margaret’s RBF...
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