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Posted on 10/06/2025 2:41:29 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
For decades, Indian students have viewed U.S. universities as gateways to success. But evolving immigration policies under the Trump administration have altered that narrative. A dramatic hike in H1B visa fees and tighter post-study employment rules are now deterring both students and employers. The fallout is immense—students burdened with debt, uncertain job prospects, and delayed opportunities. Drawing from personal experience, this article explores how these changes have made the path to success steeper and prompted many to reconsider studying or working in the United States altogether.
Almost nine months since I returned to India after spending a little over two years studying in the United States, I find myself reflecting on that decision — one I made reluctantly at first, unsure of what lay ahead. Friends and family questioned my choice to leave the world’s largest economy, where journalists thrive and careers often unfold in dollars. Yet, in hindsight, what seemed uncertain then now feels like a decision made at the right time.
When Donald Trump took the oath as President of the United States for the second time, I realized how swiftly campaign rhetoric could transform into policy. Within weeks, the administration began tightening immigration rules and enforcing deportations. The first shock came when a U.S. military aircraft carrying 104 deported Indian immigrants — many of them settled professionals — landed in Punjab on February 5. Two more flights followed, pushing the total past 300. Their sudden return left families disoriented and futures uncertain.
Soon after, attention turned to the H1B visa program and Optional Practical Training (OPT), both lifelines for international students aspiring to work in the U.S. after graduation. The Trump administration’s latest executive order increased the H1B application fee tenfold — from $10,000 to $100,000 — while introducing income-based weighting in the lottery system.
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You are on the wrong thread. This story is about high end middle class jobs being stolen by foreigners. This has nothing to do with welfare.
Shut up Euro trash. You don’t know what you are talking about and making crap up again. Stay in you socialist lane.
“For decades, Indian students have viewed U.S. universities as gateways to success”
…there’s the whole article and problem. No need to go any further.
:...they are our imported Brahmin techno overlords...”
I see them ALL as nothing but Dalit’s (Untouchables). Don’t care if they call themselves Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya or Shudra. I call them cockroaches.
They think they are so superior, but are in fact at the lowest strata of hominid development. Of course, I am referring to those H-1B parasites, and the one’s who vote democrat. /spit
Keep buying oil from Russia, you guys.
Tells us who you are.
As you said this is a relatively small number of people. I do not object to taking the best and brightest. People like that are worth it because they truly do add significant value so the $100K fee for an H1B visa is not going to deter companies from taking them. The vast vast majority of H1Bs in the US are just what I said - cheap labor. Most work in tech and for Banks and in a couple other fields. The actual scientists and researchers? Fine. Take them by all means. Of course, the Indians whining about the end of the program are acting like the high value ones aren't going to get brought into the US now (not true) and are also trying to pretend they are representative of most H1Bs (also not true).
More bullcrap. Nothing is changing. There will be more H1Bs not fewer. Trump’s EO is a toothless bait and switch. These articles are nothing but fake news.
For someone who lives in central_venezuela, you do like socialism a lot.
Why is that?
In Cary, NC, there are so many Indians there that people joke the city’s name should be changed to Curry, NC.
At the Cary Costco, almost all Indians when you shop. My father said there were few other nationalities represented that were shopping there.
Their offspring cheat like hell in school. Encouraged by the parents.
India has some good undergraduate institutions; it is the graduate education where they are lacking. Most of the Indian students who come to the US are graduate students.
Illegal???
OUT!
GET OUT!!!
Who cares about sob stories???
$100,000
That’s great idea!
It allows in the the real geniuses, but keeps away the mediocre.
Who should not be here!
That is true.
well, the whining is because this was a pathway for riches - both for those who got the chance to emigrate to the USA and for the companies. That now ends.
So people will be forced to stay home and build up India's growth. So far it has been good
But with the reduction of the brain drain, it should skyrocket their growth. They will have initial pain no doubt, but for the federation of India, it would be an injection of steroids.
No, hal, in general, they come to the USA legally.
No one gives sh1t about India.
No, I'm not and yes it does. There's more going on in NoVa than what you think you know. It's relevant due to their parents who the job stealers import here after they have stolen the high end middle class jobs. Then they get their parents on welfare that WE pay for. It is going on here in Fairfax County. The parents live with the job stealers while on the waiting list for senior housing and other bennies which they get when the job stealers' kids don't need the grandparents of their kids for babysitters or cooks/servants anymore.
That's right, it's their PARENTS and their whole damned inbred village that they bring over here that are.
There is no money in India. $3 an hour is considered a good wage. It’s why Reddit is full of “Virtual Assistants” who will work for $3 an hour.
It was a pathway to better pay and possibly riches in the long term as they climbed the corporate ladder....but that pathway was for them and for corporations which got to save a lot of money on wages. That pathway came at the expense of American workers in the short term and I would argue over the long haul when your people are worse off...when they're not getting the jobs and pay and they're not climbing the corporate ladder because they didn't get the entry level jobs in the first place, it hurts your country. Those foreigners? They have no loyalty to your country.
As for them helping fuel India's growth.....fine! I have nothing against India. I just don't think we should have a scheme that undermines American workers with cheaper foreigners in our own country.
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