H-1B visas must end’: Wife of US citizen shares plight of landing IT jobs

[SoulSpokesman]

@Meengla sb

I am not saying Pakistan is much good, but this damning, scathing attack on the life in India is worth watching.

No need to watch any video. I am a working age Indian and I know staying in India can be physically and mentally stressful. Yet if you have skills and earn a good wage, you can still make life worth living.

Regards

 

[Distant_Observer]

The question we must ask, if H1B's were not majority from India and perhaps from Denmark or Germany, would the public and Trump have had the same reaction?

 

[hydrabadi_arab]

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congratz 75th b'day modi lo**y

Its like beating a dead horse at this point.

 

[Meengla]

I cant speak for Pakistan, but I know many Indians with specific skill sets who have recently been moving back to India for better career prospects. That wasn't the case a few years back when people returned mostly for family reasons.

I believe you with a caveat: The 'many' vs 'most' argument. And you know which is much more dominant word here.
Anecdotically speaking, I found several Pakistani Americans in my last trip to Pakistan from just a few weeks ago, who have either moved back to Pakistan or don't care to 'avail' their US Citizenship/Green Card. And they wondered why I would want to be an old person in America. Some even said you could have a decent 'Assisted Living' for Rs. 60,000 (about only $200) per month in Karachi for your old age. Medical care in Pakistan could be decent with Western trained / educated staff. Just for the heck of it, I had my total 'lab work' done with an Agha Khan Medical University lab for only $82!! It was a professional, safe and accurate experience.

 

[hydrabadi_arab]

The question we must ask, if H1B's were not majority from India and perhaps from Denmark or Germany, would the public and Trump have had the same reaction?

Never in a million years.

 

[BrigSmart]

The question we must ask, if H1B's were not majority from India and perhaps from Denmark or Germany, would the public and Trump have had the same reaction?

Obviously not, there is a lot of racism involved. It would have been the same, or, in some cases, worse if they were from Pakistan, China, Mexico or Nigeria.

 

[maverick]

such a sad day in america! this was coming though, indians abuse of H1b visa has destroyed american tech sector and now H1b as well ..

 

[BrigSmart]

I believe you with a caveat: The 'many' vs 'most' argument. And you know which is much more dominant word here.
Anecdotically speaking, I found several Pakistani Americans in my last trip to Pakistan from just a few weeks ago, who have either moved back to Pakistan or don't care to 'avail' their US Citizenship/Green Card. And they wondered why I would want to be an old person in America. Some even said you could have a decent 'Assisted Living' for Rs. 60,000 (about only $200) per month in Karachi for your old age. Medical care in Pakistan could be decent with Western trained / educated staff. Just for the heck of it, I had my total 'lab work' done with an Agha Khan Medical University lab for only $82!! It was a professional, safe and accurate experience.

The old person in a foreign country argument has always been true for Indians. What is more recent is the career opportunity for young people argument, especially for Indians in the US who face extremely long GC wait queues and decades of career limbo. Many are choosing to return to India as founders or senior executives in companies with the opportunity to make a lot more money and have far more professional impact in the long run than they would have made in the US.

 

[Meengla]

No need to watch any video. I am a working age Indian and I know staying in India can be physically and mentally stressful. Yet if you have skills and earn a good wage, you can still make life worth living.

Can't dispute that. Many times people 'make their bed' but refuse to 'lay' in them, as the saying goes. During my last trip, I found some in Pakistan with 5 or 6 kids and were fussing about their lives. WTH?!
More to your post: I was actually very surprised by many of my cousins and friends' kids working in professional jobs, online jobs, in multinational companies and making a good living. My own nephew took me to a cafe in a posh area of Karachi and he had no hesitation about paying $3 for a mango flavored ice tea!! $3!!! Think of the Purchase Power Parity!! But in my own generation of graduates 30+ years ago in Pakistan, we had far fewer opportunities then what the younger ones have now!!! And yet Pakistanis are always breast beating!!! OMG!

 

[Mighty_Dragon_Strike]

Its like beating a dead horse at this point.

no....


they are making it a law, passing restrictions, now!

only question is:


Once a hand goes into an acid bottle and touches the acid, it’s too late to think about recovery—just like gold, which can’t be recovered once it’s put in mercury.


its like 'legalizing' recovery of hand, which once touched and held acid!

repercussions will reach you before you outrun them!


best measures against such outcomes often is to legalize black economy!

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@Meengla sb

I was actually very surprised by many of my cousins and friends' kids working in professional jobs, online jobs, in multinational companies and making a good living.

And why were you surprised? Most of IND, BD and PAK (east of the River Indus) are places where from time immemorial people have worked hard for a living. Once they have access to basic living wages, education and healthcare, their priorities are clear- put kids to school and ensure they can work their way to a decent livelihood. The rest is upto governance parameters.

Regards

 

[FuturePAF]

Hints at one possible Indian strategy:

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21:00-23:20

“This is laborious work (55 hours a week work) Americans won’t be willing to work.”

He suggests Indians getting in on other visas, such as F1 visas and later on get it converted into the H1B visa. IMHO, if it looks visibly the Indians are abusing other visa categories, then those visa categories will face a clampdown as well, soon enough, possibly before the 2026 midterms.

Outside of family reunification visas, options may start to get limited for regular caliber workers.

Indian Americans may have to start be more careful who is looking to marry them.

 

[SoulSpokesman]

@FuturePAF

This laborious work (55 hours a week work) Americans won’t be willing to work.

Sounds racist, but it is true isn't it. You have a whole generation of entitled white kids who have grown up wondering they are boys or girls and overdosed on woke liber@ndu propaganda and you suddenly expect them to compete with hardworking and motivated immigrant Asian kids for tech jobs?

Regards

 

[RajaBaja]

H1B's are coming to an end or will get minimized a lot in the months and years to come. Trump's $ 100,000.00 fees for each H1B will cause issues in lower income brackets. American worker and wage will directly benefit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/trump-raises-fee-for-h-1b-visas-to-100000/ar-AA1MVvOl

Trump raises fee for H-1B visas to $100,000​

Story by Zoë Richards
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Donald Trump on Thursday in Aylesbury, England. (Leon Neal / Getty Images)
President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Friday requiring companies to pay a $100,000 fee to obtain H-1B worker visas.

The proclamation comes as the Trump administration intensifies its crackdown on immigration, through raids and massive deportation efforts in cities nationwide.

The proclamation-signing is a win for immigration hardliners on Capitol Hill, but is likely to rankle tech executives seeking qualified workers from abroad.


During his first term, Trump sought to enact rules that would have dramatically limited the issuing of new skilled-worker visas, citing the economic downturn precipitated by the Covid-19 pandemic and an effort to preserve jobs. The rules were ultimately struck down by a federal court.


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[Meengla]

And why were you surprised? Most of IND, BD and PAK (east of the River Indus) are places where from time immemorial people have worked hard for a living. Once they have access to basic living wages, education and healthcare, their priorities are clear- put kids to school and ensure they can work their way to a decent livelihood. The rest is upto governance

Well, I was surprised because I went to Pakistan after 6 years and the trip 6 years ago was not only brief but that too was after 6 years.
But such distance of time has its peculiar benefits: Like we see friends/relatives after a long time and we notice their ageing, their health immediately, so similar to that we see a region's differences immediately. And I found the Pakistan of August 2025 to be an improved, more enlightened Pakistan then I found from my previous trip of 2019.