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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 ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: caste; castesystem; gayforindia; h1b; india; jayganglani; jobthieves; mithilaggarwal; remaininindia; satyanadella; sendthemback; sundarpichai
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To: marcusmaximus
Texas

Prana pratishtha held today in Houston, Texas for this 90ft tall Hanuman murthi. It is now the 3rd tallest statue in the United States

81 posted on 10/02/2025 6:39:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: marcusmaximus

Then there’s Irish anchor babies, Italian anchor babies, German anchor babies...How the hell do you think this country grew??


82 posted on 10/02/2025 6:51:50 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Haven’t seen any European anchor babies in America for over a century. Now, they’re Mexicans and Indians. End birthright citizenship now.


83 posted on 10/02/2025 6:58:28 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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To: marcusmaximus

NBC: First in America Last ...


84 posted on 10/02/2025 6:59:27 AM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: marcusmaximus

Over 700,000 Americans lost their dream just this year to H1B slaves.


85 posted on 10/02/2025 7:00:48 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: Sacajaweau

PAs are cheaper


86 posted on 10/02/2025 7:01:51 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Make educ institutions return to the Mission...reading, writing, math...not Opinions & propaganda)
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To: marcusmaximus

Tough. Congress should have never done this program for Y2K.


87 posted on 10/02/2025 7:02:12 AM PDT by DownInFlames (P)
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To: marcusmaximus

Does anybody care about the American Dream for, say, Americans?


88 posted on 10/02/2025 7:03:59 AM PDT by Tommy Revolts
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To: New Perspective

#18 The company I retired from hired a guy from India who was 4 positions up from the manager in the Helpdesk I worked in. The 3 guys below him all ‘retired’ within a year or so and were replaced with... people from India. The manager who was based in the office I worked in left for another job and was replaced by a guy based in Mexico. I never saw the guy but once on a video meeting with the Helpdesk. He did not speak english well as he handled Mexico and South America.


89 posted on 10/02/2025 7:07:37 AM PDT by minnesota_bound (Making money now. Still want much more.)
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To: marcusmaximus

😭


90 posted on 10/02/2025 7:39:43 AM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: marcusmaximus

They can go back to India and create the Indian Dream.


91 posted on 10/02/2025 7:42:02 AM PDT by Henry Hnyellar
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To: central_va

statism
noun
stat·​ism ˈstā-ˌti-zəm
: concentration of economic controls and planning in the hands of a highly centralized government often extending to government ownership of industry


92 posted on 10/02/2025 8:06:24 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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To: marcusmaximus
Jump on the Free Republic donations train, freeploadusmaximus.

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93 posted on 10/02/2025 8:09:34 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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94 posted on 10/02/2025 8:10:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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95 posted on 10/02/2025 8:11:11 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

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96 posted on 10/02/2025 8:11:57 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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97 posted on 10/02/2025 8:12:23 AM PDT by kiryandil (No one in AZ that voted for Trump voted for Gallego )
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To: marcusmaximus

The horror, the horror.


98 posted on 10/02/2025 8:13:50 AM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: DoodleBob

Protecting American jobs is the duty of our government. If you want an Indian doctor fly there or move there. Economic freedoms end at the border .


99 posted on 10/02/2025 8:56:47 AM PDT by central_va ( I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: marcusmaximus

Dear Indian students.

Go back to India with your newly acquired education and motivation and create a better India.


100 posted on 10/02/2025 9:03:52 AM PDT by Organic Panic ('Was I molested. I think so' - Ashley Biden in response to her father joining her in the shower.)
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