The sluggish and conservative hiring trend across all tech cohorts has further dropped, with changes in talent and enterprise contexts in the US as a key client market
A federal judge in Boston has blocked the Trump administration's requirement of a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, ruling that the executive branch exceeded its authority and violated the Administrative Procedure Act
This viral Reddit post comes 2 weeks after the US State Department began vetting social media accounts for H-1B and H-4 visa applicants
The man, who had applied to renew his H-1B visa from Chennai, stated that he was one of the lucky few whose US visa application was not deferred to the next year
This comes amid a 20-state lawsuit challenging the Donald Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fee for highly skilled foreign workers after Sep 21
While reviewing the visa application, the US immigration officials will go through the publicly available data on all the social media handles used by them in the past five years
This comes days after his appointment to the post was confirmed by the Senate, as the India-US relationship undergoes strain due to US President Donald Trump's 50% tariffs and the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee
The Trump administration has proposed to make changes to the H-1B visa rules, which make them more restrictive in eligibility, increase employer scrutiny, and tighten cap exemptions
MEA has called on the Trump administration to consider the significant contribution of skilled talent exchange to the economic development of both the US and India, in light of new H-1B visa rules
Hiring in Indian Global Capability Centres will rise in volume and complexity, say experts; Latest visa uncertainty in the United States may push talented techies to stay in India
Donald Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro has so far called India the 'maharaja of tariffs', a vampire, and Russia's laundromat
Experts say that the new policy could cut off the pipeline of US-trained talent and make companies reconsider their presence in the country. They say that tech companies along with small and medium businesses will be hit the hardest by the visa fee hike