India could sure use more of its native-born talented professionals, so why send them to the US?
Posted on 05/14/2026 11:44:53 AM PDT by millenial4freedom
The road to working and studying in the United States may soon become much tougher for thousands of skilled professionals and international students. The Trump administration is preparing a fresh set of immigration restrictions that could affect almost every major pathway used by foreign talent, from H-1B work visas to student work permits and even employment-based green cards.
While several of the proposed rules are still under review, immigration lawyers, universities, and companies say the impact is already being felt. Employers are becoming more cautious, students are growing anxious and legal experts say visa scrutiny has dramatically increased.
For Indian professionals and students, especially, the developments matter enormously. Indians receive more than 70% of H-1B visas issued every year, making them the biggest group affected by any change in the system.
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I would suggest the professionals are not sent by India but rather they flee India.
Exactly! Make your own country greater rather than trying to tap into an already-built system (ours).
Get your degree in your own country and stop stealing our tech and jobs.
Our collection of colleges and universities will not like this.
Pure bullish**. Will make it difficult for scammers and slave-labor employers.
The 0.1% of technical / skilled migrants who actually will help the USA will still find it easy to enter and stay in the USA.
As to international students - that's an entirely different visa. Rich elites of China and India who want to pay $80K for their kids to be credentialed in US universities will still be able to do that.
And you would be wrong.
India has a very determined effort to get their people into our country and jobs.
Brings them wealth and influence.
It is a deliberate colonization.
So be it. Concentrate on cultivating our homegrown talent, says I.
There is no tech job our own students can’t be trained to do and we all know it. They just won’t do it for $45,000.
Then it will correspondingly increase opportunities for American graduates trying to get their first break in the US job market.
Khanna said such a rule may sound tough politically but could effectively shut out firms that rely on skilled foreign workers but cannot afford Silicon Valley-level salaries.
Well gosh, I guess they'll just have to hire AMERICANS instead. What a radical concept! Hiring actual Americans in America.
He added that such measures would not protect American workers but instead weaken the broader economic ecosystem that depends on skilled immigration. 
BTW....isn’t AI supposedly going to kill off a lot of tech jobs anyway? Start with all the foreigners in this country.
Because India is a culture of cheaters and corner cutters. It’s why the place is a shithole.
neither will Corporate America. CEOs absolutely worship H1-Bs.
Boo-Hoo Girl really sums it up, huh? That was my reaction reading the entire piece. Every sentence had me going “Yes!! About time!”
“More legal review of visas” YES!!
😀😀😀😀
In Texas the scam is as follows: Indian legally in country owns multiple low skill businesses (food trucks, gas station, motel, etc) creates tech shell business which then requests H1-B’s for “skilled” Indians to come work for it. No over site means nobody even cared to look and see if this company had tried to find an American to do the work, or if there had ever been a job posting, or if there is even a job at all.
When the H1-B arrives he is then allowed to chain migrate his extended family into the US, and nobody checks that they are actually family. While the H1-B is only allowed to work at sponsor company these relatives can work anywhere they like and they just so happen to work for other companies owned by the H1-B sponsor, for low wages, making little enough to qualify for all our welfare benefits. The H1-B’s also illegally work for these other companies while being paid from the shell company.
It’s about time. A recent investigation found 9 out of every ten jobs were going to foreigners. As a 61 year old guy in software this makes my job search insanely difficult.
-SB
For Indian professionals and students, especially, the developments matter enormously. Indians receive more than 70% of H-1B visas issued every year, making them the biggest group affected by any change in the system.
Train Mexicans, Central Americans and South Americans how to do the same thing in their countries, making their countries greater but, removing any reason to migrate for any reason other than they got a job promotion or want to retire in Miami...
Report: 9 out of every 10 new jobs in the US since 2020 have gone to foreigners :
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4376285/posts
Silly! Corporations are unable to find U.S. tech employees with the advanced degree known as the Bachelors of Science </sarcasm> .
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