H1-B visa price hike: How this will impact Indian engineers, technicians and others who want to work in the US

Indian professionals, especially engineers and other tech workers, who want to work in the US are now facing a very different situation as President Donald Trump signed an order that puts a high annual fee of $100,000 on companies that want to sponsor H-1B visas. This change in policy is expected to have a big impact on Indian workers because they have always been the largest group to get H-1B visas. Citing government data from last year, news agency Reuters reported that 71% of all people who were approved for H-1B visas were from India, while China was a distant second with just 11.7%.

This new policy could impact those who want to work in the US because tech companies will now have to pay a very high fee for non-American workers. As a result, companies may be less willing to sponsor H-1B visas, which could lead to fewer approvals.