"What this proclamation will do is raise the fee that companies pay to sponsor H-1B applicants to $100,000 PER EMPLOYEE PER YEAR."
Posted on 09/20/2025 5:22:50 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
India’s top IT industry body, Nasscom, has raised alarm over the US’ decision to impose a steep USD 100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, warning that the move could disrupt global operations of Indian technology services companies and unsettle thousands of skilled professionals working onshore in the US.
The IT body added that what is even more concerning is that the order, which takes effect at 12:01 am on September 21, leaves just a one-day window for compliance.
Nasscom said the abrupt rollout has created “considerable uncertainty for businesses, professionals, and students across the world.”
Adjustments of this nature can potentially have ripple effects on America's innovation ecosystem and the wider job economy,” Nasscom said in a statement on Saturday.
It cautioned that Indian nationals employed on H-1B visas will be directly impacted, while technology companies will face disruption in ongoing client projects requiring onshore deployment.
SMALL TRANSITION WINDOW A CONCERN
Nasscom also flagged concerns over the lack of transition time.
“Policy changes of this scale are best introduced with adequate transition periods, allowing organisations and individuals to plan effectively and minimise disruption,” it said.
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The H-1B program allows US employers to hire highly skilled foreign professionals, with Indians forming the single largest group of beneficiaries.
Of the top 10 firms securing H-1B approvals in FY25, Indian majors such as Tata Consultancy Services (5,505), Infosys (2,004), LTIMindtree (1,807), and HCL America (1,728) featured prominently alongside global giants like Amazon (10,044), Microsoft (5,189), Meta (5,123), and Google (4,181).
(Excerpt) Read more at indiatoday.in ...
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boo-hoo!
Most likely related to India’s unwillingness to stop buying Russian oill
A friend who made his living laying out circuit boards ended up working on the internet as a contractor with the Indian who replaced him as an employee. He said the Indian did it slightly differently, but very well. The American worked during the day here, posted the result online and the Indian worked the day there. They spoke often. The Indian was making a fraction what the American had been paid. No benefits. The Indian was living with three other men in a small apartment, but at a level much better than the other men from his village. This was 2004?
Things worked out for the American because he was hired to work on a US military contract that required Americans only. But that appears to be the only way Americans can do the same jobs Indians do for less money.
India graduates significantly more engineers than the US. Partly because engineering jobs in the US must compete against H1Bs from India and partly because the Indian population is so much larger than the US population.
Go Trump!
The message is that the work by the Indians must be performed in India.
Or, the mass of educated American code writers being produced by the city state schools must be put to work getting the job done.
The leftwing high schools have taken up the challenge and are putting out code writers. My grandson attended such a school
That cheap Russian oil comes at a cost.
“The H-1B program allows US employers to hire highly skilled foreign professionals...”
Highly skilled? What a freaking joke. The vast majority of these H-1B employees are just regular grunt programmers, on par with office clerical work. And then they bring their wives to spit out anchor babies, which allows the spouse and children to also take jobs away from American citizens.
The H-1B program steals entry level jobs from American college graduates. The tech companies have been exploiting the policy for decades. Way past time to end it.
Highly skilled, my ass. /spit
What is to stop the Amazons et al from sending managers from the US Home Office to supervise the work being done in foreign countries?
The lack of warm bodies willing to do it for crappy pay and bennies?
Unless things have changed.
Which I very much doubt.
I could care less. Am sick of stuff not working because the manufacturers or service providers bought cheap programming and IT from these third world assholes, walking around Home Depot with their six anchor baby children all wearing their latest LL Bean clothing purchases. Then they want to know how to fix a leaky toilet because they’ve never seen or used one before getting here.
They didn’t have their chequebook ready to buy off politicians to put a stop to Trump.
And their arrogance is off the charts. And cheap.
Over the years, it has become a way for companies to hire cheap foreign workers instead of Americans to displace expensive domestic workers with cheap foreign labor.
Due to the over supply of H1B workers and the depression of wages due to an oversupply of workers willing to work for near starvation wages the American labor pool has dried up because Americans just don't want to spend four years of very hard college for engineering, math or science degrees to ultimately get a job that pays nothing and is dominated by foreign workers
The H1B program has been a major r factor driving the decline of America's tech sector
“Nasscom said the abrupt rollout has created “considerable uncertainty for businesses, professionals, and students across the world.”
I’m all tears.
Thank you, Pres. Trump. I never thought I would see this day.
Crashing residential housing prices for the places that use to be starter homes. I can see a 40% price reduction in some bedroom communities around core cities because the entire model is back to offshoring or hiring an American from within.
Oddly enough, upon polling my posse, I could not find
anyone that cared.
"What this proclamation will do is raise the fee that companies pay to sponsor H-1B applicants to $100,000 PER EMPLOYEE PER YEAR."
you mean the low cost foreign labor might get disrupted giving American STEM workers a chance to see and apply for jobs reserved (by indian recruiters) for indians?
sounds good to me.
i’ve did that gig for years.
most people have zero interest in living in such locations, especially if they have family.
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