And the players in the arena -- per this sampling from 2023 ---
The list is MUCH longer, and includes academia, municipal and state governments and more.
Posted on 10/14/2025 5:09:24 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
The CEO of a tech company that is one of the biggest H-1B visa sponsors in the U.S. said they would no longer be hiring applicants on the visa amid a Trump administration visa crackdown.
Tata Consultancy Services’ CEO K Krithivasan said that the Indian tech company would reduce the number of H-1B visa holders in its U.S. offices. Krithivasan told the Times of India that the company would “continue to hire more locally,” adding that this was part of a “reduction in dependency on visa-based talent.”
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Krithivasan told the Times of India that the company had around 11,000 employees on H-1B visas as part of its roughly 32,000 workforce in the U.S. The CEO said that the company would now reduce the number of employees on visas and focus on hiring locally.
“We have enough people on H-1 already in the US. I don’t think we would be looking for adding to that count,” Krithivasan told the Deccan Chronicle.
The CEO said that the scale down of employees on H-1B visa was part of an ongoing strategy to reduce reliance on visa-based talent, but it comes as the Trump administration introduced a steep fee for the visa.
“Our original plan was always to send people on H-1 with the intention of bringing them back and rotating them. So it continued to focus on bringing back at the end of the programs, or rotating them with locals. And how much we would renew or whom we would renew is a call we will take at the appropriate time. We are looking to increase our local participation,” he told the Deccan Chronicle.
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This is a major deal, and what's not being talked about much, and which is REALLY bad, is a review of all the H1Bs upon their 3-year renewal and approving or sending back based on salary and skills. I expect 90% of the H1Bs will not be here in 3 years. Ask anyone who has gotten a green card how difficult it is. They can prove that no qualified U.S. workers are available for the job (through the PERM labor certification process). That just got real tough. Throw in AI and automation, and this program is Dead, Jim....
When the nitrous oxide 200hp shot hits the economy probably Q1 of next year...look out, it will be an IT workers market again if you are a US citizen and technically competent.
"The H-1B visa program, created by former President George H.W. Bush...."It's been goin on that long, and through those that followed" Clinton, "W", Obama and so on. It's been a very long "game" on the part of companies to side step especially American engineers.
I say you have a 3-year waiting period after application for H1B, and you have to go through a rigorous screening process like trying to get a security clearance.
What this spell is the end of Big-5 consulting shops, and them getting away with what they have been doing. Too long to explain here, but it's a scam. It's a jobs program for the sh*thole third world. Pakis, Chinese, Eastern Europeans....
Specfically, as the name was "named," one reads an op-ed from 2 & 1/2+ years ago:
"While this explains the motive of big business, we can still wonder why Congress is so hell-bent on impoverishing their voters. Each new Congress we get some assorted gang of Senators and Representatives conspiring to flood the labor market with exponentially more foreign workers. They talk about labor shortages and poems on the Statue of Liberty, but you won't hear them talking about the tech layoffs and you certainly won't hear about all of these discrimination suits filed by American workers. We will have to see if this Congress will work for voters or donors, but if the past is prologue, then voters better pay close attention."Larsen & Toubro Infotech has been renamed and rebranded: LTIMindtree WikiIT Firm Settles $4.65 Million Case Alleging Discrimination Against U.S. Workers NumbersUSA, 20 January 2023
And the players in the arena -- per this sampling from 2023 ---
The list is MUCH longer, and includes academia, municipal and state governments and more.
Indian based tech company CEO decides the U.S. now has enough Indian immigrants that his company does not need to import any more with the H1B visa.
Now, if we want to talk about how many Currys here on a greencard...that is multiples higher. I think that is the next target, getting the million or so green card holders out. From all countries. I say we get below 300 million here in the US through deportation and otherwise and really get this country back on its feet. A good Curry takes about 10 years here and full immersion in our culture, then they are worth sh*t as engineers.
H1Bdata As of August 2025....
Over 1/3 of his workforce was H1b.
The awareness of the outrageous H-1b visa is way up. I hope they can’t go back to business as usual.
No Gunga, the h-1b visa scam is up. Get that you racist bigot ?
READ what he says!
“Tata Consultancy Services’ CEO K Krithivasan said that the Indian tech company would reduce the number of H-1B visa holders in its U.S. offices.”
So, the OFFICE STAFF won’t be H-1B holders, but all the people they place with companies OUTSIDE the office still will be.
Word games!
"I remain totally committed to ending rampant, widespread H-1b abuse and ending outrageous practices such as those that occurred at Disney in Florida where Americans were force to train their foreign replacement."
- Donald Trump, 2016
I can agree completely. Especially importing unskilled and welfare dependent relatives of current citizens or green card holders is foolish. The 2 Boston bomber brothers sponsored 23 relatives for green card. No vetting for skills or wealth!
Hahaha project much? Every employee I hired was US born in my outfit. All white American young boys & girls.
They’re just going to switch to L1.
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