Posted on 10/04/2025 2:07:03 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
“This is devastating. I can’t express it in words,” said one Indian technology professional in Silicon Valley to HT as news of US President Donald Trump’s H1-B visa fee hike spread on Saturday.
“I’ve invested a lot of time here in America. I’m staying positive right now but there are times when it’s hard,” adds another Indian professional on an Optional Practical Training (OPT) visa, who was hoping to secure an H1B sponsorship and stay on in America after completing a master’s degree. A pervasive mood of fear and uncertainty looms large among many in the Indian diaspora, particularly young professionals working for technology firms.
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For decades, Indian students arriving in the United States on F1 student visas were able to find jobs with companies that were willing to sponsor them for H1-B visas and subsequently, for employment based green cards.
This pathway became the basis of the Indian-American dream and allowed many in India’s 5-million strong diaspora to set down roots in America.
After Trump’s H1B visa decision, many in the diaspora believe that pathway is fundamentally broken.
“The education pathway of coming to America and subsequently staying in the United States will collapse because these visa moves make it so much harder for entry level workers to find a job,” says Debarghya Das, a partner at Menlo Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm.
“For an Indian master’s student, it is not a wise decision to come to America right now,” says another Indian professional on an H1B visa, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
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Good morning, Happy. Given up on your other theme, these days?
President Trump is going to deport you and Kiryandil back to India. Pack your bags, Hadji.
I love the lamentations of Indian H-1B visa scammers in the morning. It sounds like winning!!
Go back to India.
Well, Happy, at least your sense of humor is repetitive.
Couldn't you have come up with Ivan-Hadji, like one of the feminist married names or a Vienese. But no.
Your Latin seems not big enough to make a mark.
Kalpana Chawla – Astronaut, first woman of Indian origin in space.
Satya Nadella – CEO of Microsoft.
Sundar Pichai – CEO of Alphabet (Google’s parent company).
Vivek Murthy – U.S. Surgeon General.
Arati Prabhakar – Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan – Nobel Prize in Chemistry (2009).
Sangeeta Bhatia – MIT professor, pioneer in tissue engineering and nanomedicine.
Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar – Astrophysicist, Nobel Prize in Physics (1983).
Indra Nooyi – Former CEO of PepsiCo.
Vinod Khosla – Venture capitalist, co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
Padmasree Warrior – Tech executive, former CTO of Cisco and Motorola.
Did your boss provide you with that list?
"Image: Adnan Abidi/REUTERS"
And it gets you back to your theme of the last many months, Turns out Deutsche Welle's "Dmytro Hubenko is originally from Kyiv, Ukraine."
"But New Delhi has said it has no objection to the US deporting its citizens, saying that it sees a connection between undocumented migration and organized crime. Indian Foreign Ministry officials have also said the country is open to returning verified Indian nationals living illegally in any country, including the US."US military plane flies back deported migrants to India Deutsche Welle, Dmytro Hubenko with AP, AFP, dpa February 5, 2025
I said nothing about its validity.
Answer the question.
Tenor.com as a "trendy" pix source is such a fine resource for big pictures. If you increase the "width="x%" to a larger number, you can leave an even bigger mark.....
Why don't you advocate for the reform of the H1B visa system to encourage these kinds of leaders while discouraging tech companies from exploiting lower-level Indian employees because they get them cheaper and exploit them with legal leverage?
The Trump administration is on the right track with $100,000 H1 B visas that will encourage retention of very valuable and desperately needed talent while making it uneconomic to continue exploitation of Indians who were cheaper but are contributing little while displacing American jobs.
You're the one who insinuates, justify it.
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