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Research from 2020 cautioned that legal restrictions on high-skilled immigration can lead firms to offshore skilled jobs
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The U.S. has long been the top destination for international students, with most of them coming from India and China.
Key facts
- On June 8, a U.S. judge ruled Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas unenforceable, citing that the government lacked the authority to impose it
- H-1B visa registrations for fiscal year 2027, applications for which closed on March 19, fell 38.5% from a year earlier
- On the anonymous employee review app Blind, employees of five U.S. Big Tech companies, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Nvidia, discussed the June 8 court ruling over 90% less than the September
- Between 2022 and 2024, over 80,000 Indian H-1B holders lost U.S. tech jobs, each facing a 60-day countdown to leave the country, sharma added
Summary
Restrictive and volatile U.S. immigration policies have caused deep psychological fatigue among foreign tech workers. Competing regions like Canada, the U.K., and the UAE are poaching elite tech talent by offering more predictable immigration policies. American tech giants are moving personnel to offshore hubs like Vancouver and expanding hiring in India. Highly skilled immigrant tech workers in the U.S. are eyeing relocation to Canada, the U.K., or the Gulf as H-1B visa uncertainty continues to haunt them. On June 8, a U.S. judge ruled Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas unenforceable, citing that the government lacked the authority to impose it.