Indian students face uncertainty as U.S. tightens visa and work policies

Hans India ^ | 10/6/2025 | Fatima Hasan

[central_va]

Good points you raise.

[FLT-bird]

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.

I've worked for lots of the major banks in Charlotte. Those officer towers are 1/4 to 1/3 H1B Indians. Look around the nicer apartment complexes in town. Indians everywhere. I don't hate them and I don't hate India. I freely acknowledge if I were in their place, I would do the same. But I don't think there should be hordes of them here at the expense of Americans. If that shaves a point or two off of BofA's and Wells Fargo's profit margin....oh well. So be it.

[mikey_hates_everything]

Good points you raise.

Thanks but I wish I didn't have to witness it for the last 30 years after growing up here 30 years prior to that. What's so irritating is that these are my neighbors that I am talking about and they practically joke about what they are getting away with. NoVa is a friggen mess and now that I'm retired, I'm getting the hell out.

[bobcat62]

Don’t insult the cockroach like that.

[mikey_hates_everything]

I don't hate them and I don't hate India.

I didn't either until I went there a few times for work. And you could never be in their place, though, that's the thing, because you weren't raised in that environment. Here are some things a tourist there can look forward to: Aiming for dogs in the road with their cars while swerving around the "holy" cows and nearly killing you if you're on foot. Elevators that all smell like BO and curry when unoccupied and far worse when Indians are in the elevator with you. The power going out every day from 1430 to 1600 and the temperature and humidity never getting below 95 degrees and percent, respectively. When the temp happens to get below 80, all of the locals get cold and only have sh*t to burn for heat, enhancing the ever-present smell of death that Seinfeld accurately described on an episode. Having to only drink from water distillers that must be sterilized every day. Well dressed beggars shoving drugged and maimed babies in your face for money that you can't avoid while you are in your taxi at stop lights because the windows have to be down because the filthy taxis or tuc-tucs have no A/C. Adults squatting and crapping in street gutters everywhere. Red letter days where co-workers and friends announce that they finally had a solid BM. The utter fear of having diarrhea on the outgoing flight when you're scheduled to leave because you have basically had the runs and worse throughout your stay there. Having to avoid drinking from glasses and cleaning your can of Coke with a disinfectant wipe, making sure not to pour it into a glass with ice in it, or you're going to be on the toilet for days blasting and wrecking it, thanks to the contaminated ice. Getting a nice, painful upper respiratory infection from the ever present mold and mildew in all of the never-cleaned HVAC systems. Is this enough? I won't even get into what the train trip to Agra was like to see the the Taj Mahal... The whole damned country is like a crossover of the movies Idiocracy and Soylent Green. They all don't do these things but this is their culture, they all tolerate it and think it's normal. They should not be here.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

I bleed for them with my IT degree as I stock shelves at walmart.

[Kazan]

Do you think Dinesh D’Souza should be deported, too? Or are you okay with those Indian descent here legally?

[Bon of Babble]

Go home and with all your job stealing talent make India great.

[Languager]

Hal, yes, note that I specifically students, which means they came in legally on a visa.

[wrcase]

Not only that, they also spend thousands on coaches for them. Just to win a stupid spelling bee.