Yale learned Gautam Mukunda defeated US President Donald Trump’s decision to raise the H-1B visa fee to $ 100,000 and warned that such a step would harm America’s long-standing advantage to attract world-class talent. Mukunda reiterated that the policy change is “economically unhealthy” and that the US would disadvantage in the global race to hire highly qualified professionals, especially as other countries become increasingly competitive to utilize the same pool of talent. Increasing demand for IIT graduates The scholar emphasized that top graduates, especially from leading institutions such as the Indian Institutes of Technology (Iits), are highly demand in other countries. He believes that through this new policy, the US is essentially discarding this benefit, as every other country would eagerly pursue these talented individuals. He noted that “every country in the world would kill to get the best IIT graduates”. ‘But America throws this asset away for no reason. This H1B visa decision doesn’t make sense at all, ‘he added. Top talent in the US, which is H-1B visa product under different industries, technical workers form one of the largest groups of H-1B visa recipients. According to US citizenship and immigration services, Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Apple were one of the businesses that employed the most H-1B visa holders last year. Some of the most famous leaders in the technology industry, such as Tesla’s Elon Musk, CEO of Alphabet, Sundar Pichai, CEO of IBM, Arvind Krishna and Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft, were at some point H-1B visa holders. Among these leaders were both Krishna and Pichai IIT graduates who moved to the US. Krishna is studying at IIT Kanpur, while Pichai is an IIT Kharagpur graduate. Netizens respond to the statement that responds to Mukunda’s statement, and one user on X (formerly Twitter) wrote: “It’s wild because the US literally benefits from dozens of India’s investment in education, and then turns away the best talent if it’s time to earn the benefits. Another user pointed out that “IIT graduates created $ 7 tonnes in value by companies such as Google, Microsoft and Adobe, but only 60 receive H1Bs annually against 850 from single-mass universities,” added that countries such as Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom are now targeting this dissatisfied talent. However, the remarks were divided. One user, among many others, asked, “Why doesn’t India keep all the IIT graduates in India if they are so exceptional?” All about the H-1B Visa fee increase that Donald Trump’s administration announced on Friday that it rose the annual fee on the H-1B visa from a few thousand dollars to $ 100,000, sent shock waves in the talent rental industry. The H-1B is a kind of US visa that enables companies to hire foreign workers in competent careers such as IT, healthcare and engineering. The Washington Post moved to America every year to a H-1B visa every year, with about half a million people currently established as visa holders in America.
H-1B Visa Fee Hiking: Amid Trump’s shock, Yale learners say ‘every country will kill to get IIT graduates’
