{"id":246132,"date":"2025-09-22T10:50:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246132\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T10:50:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T10:50:21","slug":"india-feels-the-sting-as-trump-slaps-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/246132\/","title":{"rendered":"India feels the sting as Trump slaps $100,000 fee on H-1B visas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shubra Singh’s Saturday night dinner at a bar in Pittsburgh was ruined by the White House.<\/p>\n

Her eight Indian friends at the table, all techies on H-1B visas, were glued to their phones as they tried to get more information about U.S President Donald Trump’s latest move to raise fees for H-1B visa applications.<\/p>\n

Their families were frantically sending “all kinds of articles on the H-1B situation”, said Singh, an Indian biotech professional on work travel to the U.S., adding that the “anxiety was apparent.”<\/p>\n

About 71% and 11.7% of H-1B visa holders in the U.S are Indian and Chinese nationals, respectively.\u00a0The Trump proclamation to increase H-1B visa fees to $100,000 mires their U.S. employment in uncertainty.<\/p>\n

Relations between U.S. and India have been deteriorating for the last few months, as Washington imposed additional tariff on Indian exports in response to New Delhi’s ongoing Russian oil purchases.<\/p>\n

Back in India, shares of Indian IT companies declined on Monday after the U.S. announced its work permit visa fee plans to bring new employees into the country.<\/p>\n

Stock market impact<\/p>\n

The move could deal a massive blow to companies \u2014 primarily in the technology and finance sectors \u2014 that rely heavily on highly skilled immigrants, particularly from India and China.<\/p>\n

If the $100,000 visa fee for H-1B visa applications is implemented, “it will increase the cost of doing business for IT services companies and end-clients in the US, impacting margins for IT services companies,” Citi Research said in a note on Sunday.<\/p>\n

It added that the margins of Indian IT companies are likely to increase, as the cost of doing business in the US “may not be entirely passed to customers”.<\/p>\n

Investors reacted to the news by shedding shares of Indian IT outsourcing firms, such as Infosys<\/a>, Tech Mahindra<\/a>, Wipro<\/a>, HCL Technologies<\/a> and Tata Consultancy Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Small and mid-size firms were also losing ground, with Persistent Systems<\/a>, Coforge<\/a>, Mphasis<\/a>, Firstsource Solutions<\/a> and Cyient<\/a> shares falling between 1.7% and 4.2% by 6.30 a.m. in London (1.30 a.m. ET).<\/p>\n

\"U.S.<\/a>Big Tech companies, foreign governments scramble after Trump slaps $100,000 fee on H-1B visas<\/a><\/p>\n

The stock market moves indicate that investors expect the relative price of hiring workers on H1-B visas to increase meaningfully.<\/p>\n

Analysts suggest that IT firms are likely to alter their staffing strategies as a result of the new expense, by either sending workers to “near-shore” centers such as Mexico or Canada, substituting H-1 B recruits with U.S. residents or citizens, or offshoring more work to India’s growing “global capability centers.”<\/p>\n

“Over the years, we have been steadily reducing our reliance on visas through increased local hiring, acquisitions, and partnerships,” said outsourcer Mphasis in a Monday statement to investors. “We are fully staffed for all existing client requirements and will operate in a business-as-usual mode.”<\/p>\n

JPMorgan’s Toshi Jain also predicted that the impact, although modest, will be felt far beyond India’s tech sector.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The economist said that a decline in the number of new H1-B visa holders will likely lead to a reduction in remittances sent to India.<\/p>\n

Jain also sees a decline in Indian students choosing to go to the U.S. in the coming years, as the $100,000 visa fee may work as a new “tax” on finding a job in the U.S. post-education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shubra Singh’s Saturday night dinner at a bar in Pittsburgh was ruined by the White House. Her eight…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":246133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[133,81,69,130848,130845,51,1567,130842,135,50,130847,130846,130843,52,67,130844],"class_list":{"0":"post-246132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-breaking-news-markets","9":"tag-business-news","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-firstsource-solutions-ltd","12":"tag-hcl-technologies-ltd","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-india","15":"tag-infosys-ltd","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-niit-technologies-ltd","19":"tag-tata-consultancy-services-ltd","20":"tag-tech-mahindra-ltd","21":"tag-top-stories","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-wipro-ltd"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115247567964041771","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}