Trump’s restrictions on skilled immigration could encourage Indian professionals to reconsider their future in America. But research by Vivek Wadhwa and migration survey data suggest India’s economic gains are far from automatic. Continue reading Trump Wants American Jobs Back. Could His Visa Crackdown Help Build India’s Next Silicon Valley?
From where I sit in Karachi, watching the Indian-American community’s slow unravelling of faith in the United States feels like watching a familiar play from the wrong side of the stage. South Asians have always understood, somewhere in the back … Continue reading Why Nearly 40% of Indian-Americans Want to Leave the United States
The debate around H-1B reform often focuses on workers. Less attention is paid to employers, even though recent changes make one thing clear: the H-1B visa is becoming an employer-filtered system. This shift reveals a growing corporate bias in the H-1B visa, where access increasingly depends on the size, scale, and financial capacity of the sponsoring organization. How Corporate Bias Entered the H-1B Visa System Historically, the H-1B visa was neutral toward employer size. A regional engineering firm and a multinational technology company entered the same lottery under identical procedural rules. That neutrality has eroded. Recent reforms emphasize wage thresholds, … Continue reading Corporate Bias in H-1B Visa Is Reshaping Skilled Migration
The wage-weighted H-1B visa marks a significant shift in how the United States selects skilled foreign workers. The random lottery that has been in place for a long time has been replaced. The new system prioritizes salary. It gives higher-paid … Continue reading Wage-Weighted H-1B Visa: How the New System Prices Out Middle-Class Migrants
