Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 08/22/2025 6:07:40 AM PDT by 11th_VA
New York: Indians working in the United States on H-1B or L-1 visas are reconsidering their long-term plans in the wake of rising uncertainties. A recent Blind poll, conducted anonymously for verified professionals, found that 45% would return to India if job loss forced them to leave the United States. Another 26% said they would move to a different country, while 29% remain undecided.
Pay cuts and quality-of-life concerns top the list of worries for those contemplating a return. About 25% cited lower pay as a deterrent, 24% mentioned a dip in living standards, 13% highlighted cultural or family adjustments and 10% feared fewer job opportunities.
When asked if they would apply for a U.S. work visa again, only 35% said yes. The majority (65%) were either unsure (27%) or negative (38%), indicating a growing shift in perception about the benefits of American work visas.
Personal experiences feed this sentiment. Over one-third of respondents (35%) said they or someone they knew had to leave the United States following a job loss, often facing deportation risks during the short grace period.
Deportation Notices Before Grace Period Ends
H-1B visa holders reported a rising trend of deportation notices being issued even before the 60-day grace period expires. One in six respondents said they or someone they knew had received a Notice to Appear (NTA) within weeks of losing a job. This could result in a permanent ban from the United States.
“Multiple cases where NTAs were sent in 2 weeks. Immigration lawyers now advise leaving as soon as possible after [the] job ends otherwise you risk a permanent ban from the US,” wrote one Meta user on Blind.
Normally, H-1B workers get 60 days to find a new employer or switch visa status, but reports since mid-2025 suggest notices arriving as early as two weeks into the grace period.
Trump’s Comments Stir Debate
President Donald Trump recently urged U.S. companies to “stop hiring in India”. The Blind survey found 63% of U.S.-based professionals felt this could benefit their companies, while 69% of India-based respondents believed it would harm their firms. The survey was conducted from July 28 to August 8, 2025.
Potential Visa Rule Changes
On August 8, the US Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OMB) cleared a proposal to change H-1B visa rules. Titled ‘Weighted Selection Process for Registrants and Petitioners Seeking to File Cap-Subject H-1B Petitions’, it is now with US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) for public comment.
While the text of the proposed rule has not yet been released, the proposal could potentially replace the current random H-1B lottery system with a wage-based selection process.
The measure revives Trump’s first-term effort to prioritise higher salaries. In January 2021, near the end of Trump’s first term, he attempted to implement a rule that tied the H-1B lottery selection to wage level. This new rule will likely resemble the 2021 version.
At present, H-1B selection is a lottery. Under a wage-based system, the USCIS would rank applications by offered salaries, starting from the highest until the annual cap is reached. Luck takes a back seat.
The H-1B programme allows 85,000 visas annually: 65,000 for general applicants and 20,000 for holders of US master’s degrees or higher. If applications exceed the cap, a computerised lottery determines selection. Tech firms rely heavily on this programme.
If the rule mirrors the 2021 attempt, cap-subject H-1B petitions for entry-level positions would have almost no chance of selection. This would significantly affect foreign graduates seeking work in the United States.
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
Great! Get rid of as many of them as possible. Do it as quickly as possible.
“ Great! Get rid of as many of them as possible. Do it as quickly as possible.”
********************************************
100% agree with you.
After the killers with the fraudulent CDL in Florida are in prison for life, the rest get to go home and crap in the streets there.
In my job I circulate among many car repair shops. The men working there speak only Spanish. My guess is that if ICE vans rolled through, most of them would be taken away.
Their heads are on a swivel and their body language is full alert.
Tech companies are still hiring Indians and sending work to India. There is no end unless it becomes painful for companies to do that.
When they become unemployed, they can live far cheaper in India. Males will find it easier to marry a young Indian girl there too.
They aren’t here illegally so efforts shouldn’t be made to force them out. However, i do welcome America First type changes that make the benefits less inviting which cause many H1Bs to choose to go back home. Let’s at least start it that way while we focus on the criminals. The claim is that these are jobs Americans wont or can’t do. When all the snap and other cuts hit later in 2026, Americans are going to need jobs to do or be homeless. Let’s get the timing right on it so that as the illegals leave these jobs, we are transitioning Americans into them so that there is as little gaps or strains on the economy as possible. Americans will do the work when they dont have freebie options.
Beat the rush. Go now so you'll land a job in India before all the other deportees return there.
They talk like this is a problem. I am all for this. We don’t need to import foreign workers.
Go to JOBS.NOW and see how the H1B Pandemic is being inflicted on American workers.
Then there is this possible conundrum.
An Indian H 1B visa holder fearing deportation moves to the large technical community in Alberta.
Alberta leaves Canada and applies for admittance as the 51st state and actually becomes an American territory.
Is the Indian in question still subject to deportation back to India?
Interesting how media forbade its minions to write stories about the American public’s resentment of Indian immigrants until Usha Vance and Vivek Ramaswamy appeared and a political opportunity was noticed - now complaints are being repeated everywhere.
Yell, “La Migra!”
I voted for this!
They quote all these percentages of visa holders, but don’t state what the total numbers are those percentages represent.
At the end of the article it states only annually allowed visas.
These are supposedly the numbers:
FWD.us estimates that there are as many as 730,000 H-1B holders within the U.S.,and an additional 550,000 dependents3 (like spouses and children), representing nearly 1.3 million U.S. residents.
https://www.fwd.us/news/h1b-visa-program/
India shouldn’t be reselling that Russian oil.
Ditto.
Indians working in the US on H-1B or L-1 visas are reconsidering their long-term plans:
<><>there are rising uncertainties.
<><>45% of professionals would return to India if job loss forced them to leave.
<><>26% said they would move to a different country,
<><>29% remain undecided.
<><>Pay cuts and quality-of-life concerns top the list of worries.
<><>About 25% cited lower pay as a deterrent,
<><>24% mentioned a dip in living standards,
<><>13% highlighted cultural or family adjustments
<><>10% feared fewer job opportunities.
<><>asked if they would apply for a U.S. work visa again, only 35% said yes.
<><>The majority (65%) were either unsure (27%) or negative (38%),
<><>indicating a growing shift in perception about the benefits of American work visas.
Personal experiences feed this sentiment. Over one-third of respondents (35%) said they or someone they knew had to leave the United States following a job loss, often facing deportation risks
With AI advancing, these tech people should have lots of other things to worry about. They might not have jobs when they get home, either. But US jobs should go to US citizens. Pack your bags, friends.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.