India, Sept. 20 -- To secure an H1-B visa for foreign employees, the US tech companies will now have to pay $100,000 to the government. The move is particularly damaging for the Indian diaspora in the US who constitute nearly 70% of the H1-B visa-holders.
The US commerce secretary has the media that the move would ensure that US companies hire more American talent while sending less valuable foreign workers back to their home countries. Trump has alleged "systemic abuse" of the H-1B visa system, particularly by IT outsourcing firms. The US President declared that the misuse of the H-1B program was a "national security threat."
But which are the tech companies that hire most number of foreign employees and will now have to pay a fortune ...
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