Trump's $100K H-1B Visa Fee Sparks Industry Concerns

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Trump's $100K H-1B Visa Fee Sparks Industry Concerns
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Donald Trump's new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas threatens to disrupt Indian IT firms' US projects, impacting their margins and straining US-India relations amid broader immigration and trade tensions. The policy increase aims to curb abuses but risks backfiring by raising costs for US companies and encouraging them to expand their offshore operations in India. Major Indian tech firms are likely to challenge the move in court, as it affects their ability to deploy engineers in the US.

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