$100k for H-1B visa in US: Trump’s Govt – Impact on Indian IT Professionals
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMZ2o4Dcr90 As per the official statement by Donald Trump’s Govt, United States issued this new guideline RESTRICTION ON ENTRY OF CERTAIN NONIMMIGRANT WORKERS, under this H1B Visa annual fee has been increased to $100K. This is termed is PROJECT FIREWALL as mentioned in the public tweet made by official account of US Department of Labor. This new guidelines is effective 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025. As per the clarification issued by White House, Current H-1B holders exempt from new fee. The days of employers abusing H-1B Visas are over. Introducing PROJECT FIREWALL—our plan to ensure high-skilled jobs go to AMERICANS FIRST 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/XPwBJSZfto — U.S. Department of Labor (@USDOL) September 19, 2025 Report Highlight This report highlights that H1B Visa has been misused especially by IT Companies in US. “Reports also indicate that many American tech companies have laid off their qualified and highly skilled American workers and simultaneously hired thousands of H-1B workers. One software company was approved for over 5,000 H-1B workers in FY 2025; around the same time, it announced a series of layoffs totaling more than 15,000 employees. Another IT firm was approved for nearly 1,700 H-1B workers in FY 2025; it announced it was laying off 2,400 American workers in Oregon in July. A third company has reduced its workforce by approximately 27,000 American workers since 2022, while being approved for over 25,000 H-1B workers since FY 2022. A fourth company reportedly eliminated 1,000 jobs in February; it was approved for over 1,100 H-1B workers for FY 2025” Impact of this new H1B Visa guideline on India IT Professionals and India IT Industry As per the Industry data, published in 2019 by US Citizenship and Immigration Services, more than 75% of H1B Petitions are from India. Around 3 Lac professionals and their families are going to get impacted by this new guideline. Your browser does not support iframes. Official Release by Nasscom (Indian IT Industry Body) Nasscom (National Association of Software and Service Companies), is an Indian non-governmental trade association and advocacy group that primarily serves the Indian technology industry. Nasscom release this official advisory. .@RNamb @sangeetagupta29 @doshikavita @shivendra_1969 @nasscomgtd pic.twitter.com/bSfCjDutjs — nasscom (@nasscom) September 20, 2025 . @RNamb @sangeetagupta29 @doshikavita @shivendra_1969 @nasscomgtd pic.twitter.com/W5fFC71bli — nasscom (@nasscom) September 22, 2025 Many large IT firms in US issued an advisory to their employees that “Do not leave the US” amid this H1B visa regulation. This is created a wave of turbulence in India IT Ecosystem as many IT Engineers, their families and even IT Companies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv5UZnFPoBg WorldclassTechTalent.com WorldclassTechTalent.com is offering free job consulting to people who are going to get impacted by this decision. We are also compiling are list of companies that are open to hire the IT Engineers who are going to get impacted. User can create their profile on our portal app.worldclasstechtalent.com so that we can help users with the matching job profiles. Drop a message at our WhatsApp helpline +91-9910621666 Join Platform IT Job Consulting Join IT Job Alert Community WhatsApp +91-9910621666
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