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H1-B visa shake-up crushes the American dream for Indian students
NBC News ^ | 10/2/2025 | Mithil Aggarwal, Jay Ganglani and Peter Guo

Posted on 10/02/2025 4:23:00 AM PDT by marcusmaximus

In India, some of the biggest jobs in tech come to you.

Graduates of the Indian Institute of Technology (ITT), one of the country’s most prestigious universities, are recruited directly by Indian companies as well as American firms looking to lock down some of the world’s top talent in fields that will dominate the future, such as artificial intelligence and robotics.

Many of them also continue their studies in the United States, where India overtook China last year as the biggest source of foreign students. But policy decisions and other moves by the Trump administration, including the recently announced $100,000 fee for the H-1B skilled immigrant work visa, now have those graduates thinking twice about going to America.

“About 20 students are graduating from my department, and nearly 10 to 15 have a postdoctoral offer from the U.S.,” said Ajaykumar Udayraj Yadav, a materials science and engineering doctoral candidate working on energy storage systems, who is among the student volunteers at the Office of Career Services at IIT’s New Delhi campus.

“But the way they’re seeing the situation develop in the U.S., these students are unwilling to take them up,” he said.

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U.S. tech leaders who once held H-1B visas include Satya Nadella, the chairman and chief executive of Microsoft; Sundar Pichai, chief executive of Google and its parent company, Alphabet; and Elon Musk.

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“China welcomes outstanding talent from all industries and sectors around the globe to come to China, take root in China, and work together to advance human society,” foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing last month.

(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...


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KEYWORDS: caste; castesystem; gayforindia; h1b; india; jayganglani; jobthieves; mithilaggarwal; remaininindia; satyanadella; sendthemback; sundarpichai

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Too bad. So sad.
1 posted on 10/02/2025 4:23:00 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

Suddenly the mainstream media believes in “the American Dream,” and uses the phrase without irony. Wow!


2 posted on 10/02/2025 4:25:56 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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To: A_perfect_lady

Funny how that suddenly happened.


3 posted on 10/02/2025 4:27:18 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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But it lifts the hopes of Americans to achieve the American Dream.
4 posted on 10/02/2025 4:27:22 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: marcusmaximus

“China welcomes outstanding talent from all industries and sectors around the globe to come to China, take root in China, and work together to advance human society,” foreign ministry spokesperson Guo Jiakun told reporters in Beijing last month.

Sure they do.


5 posted on 10/02/2025 4:27:40 AM PDT by cdcdawg (The Left should cry harder.)
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To: marcusmaximus

Interesting...

The first author is an Indian based in Hong Kong...

The second author is also Hong Kong based...

So is the third guy.

Hmmmm...


6 posted on 10/02/2025 4:29:50 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: marcusmaximus

I support saving those jobs for American applicants.


7 posted on 10/02/2025 4:30:04 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: cdcdawg

See my reply #6.

Thdn it all makes sense.


8 posted on 10/02/2025 4:30:28 AM PDT by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away! 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿)
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To: marcusmaximus

Median Indian- American household income $152, 000 (pop 4m +),
building syndicates in the professions


9 posted on 10/02/2025 4:31:17 AM PDT by sopo
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My doctor is from India. He's wonderful.

Hopefully they will get these HI-B visas straightened out.

10 posted on 10/02/2025 4:32:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: mewzilla

And work for NBC “News”.


11 posted on 10/02/2025 4:32:35 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: Sacajaweau

He can be “wonderful” back in India for his fellow Indians.


12 posted on 10/02/2025 4:34:02 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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The top 100 graduates from India each year might be worth the extra 100K fee. The top 65000 - very probably not.


13 posted on 10/02/2025 4:35:05 AM PDT by posterchild
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To: A_perfect_lady

Lol
Three American Job Stealing Visas holders over at NBC .
The National Barack Channel
wrote this Barf crap .

the irony is delicious .


14 posted on 10/02/2025 4:35:06 AM PDT by ncalburt ( Gop DC Globalists are the evil. )
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To: cdcdawg

There you go. Go to China.


15 posted on 10/02/2025 4:35:45 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: sopo

Indians do not hesitate to ensure whites don’t get good jobs.


16 posted on 10/02/2025 4:36:22 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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To: Sacajaweau

It would not have been a problem if Big Industry had not abused H1B for the sake of saving money on salaries.


17 posted on 10/02/2025 4:37:00 AM PDT by Jonty30 (Pornography feeds abortion. Abortion is Satan's ultimate effort to hurt God. )
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Indians do not hesitate to ensure whites don’t get good jobs.

I know someone personally who works in IT for a large IT company and when she has to go to the home office in Cali she witnesses the cast system in it's full glory. HR knows about it but turns a blind eye.

18 posted on 10/02/2025 4:40:45 AM PDT by New Perspective (As Leonard Cohen said once in an interview, “You won’t like what comes after America”)
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To: Jonty30

It was abused from the get go. I was in IT for 30 years. Back in 1998 my entire development/IT/data dept was laid off and we had to train our Indo/Paki replacements. 30 of us without jobs who did nothing wrong except being an American. I had to tell my pregnant wife the bad news, she almost miscarried. Worst time of my life. Worse than a death in the family. Caused by corporate greed and a feckless willfully ignorant govt.

So don’t give me that BS.


19 posted on 10/02/2025 4:44:28 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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He can be “wonderful” back in India for his fellow Indians.


LOL, that's pretty good.
20 posted on 10/02/2025 4:44:55 AM PDT by Nifty
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