Critics say companies use the H-1B visa to exploit foreign labor. Yet, critics say corporations exploit the H-1B visa to get cheap labor from abroad. “The program is designed to

Vivek Ramaswamy has said that Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday will bring the "dawn of a new Golden Age."

Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

Tesla laid off roughly 6,600 workers in spring 2024 — around the same time labor statistics show the company filed about 1,300 H-1B visa applications.

As the tech industry boomed, demand for visas intended for highly skilled workers has far outstripped their availability.

WASHINGTON, DC (ANI) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is set to implement new rules aimed at modernizing and improving the H-1B and H-2 nonimmigrant visa programs. The rules will take effect on Friday, January 17, 2025, just days before the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump.

Vt., said corporations abuse the H-1B visa program as a way to get richer and should recruit American workers first.

In recent days, Trump said he supported H-1B visas. In the past, he’s made comments about the program, saying, “We shouldn’t have it. Very, very bad for workers.”

Created in 1990 and intended for skilled foreign workers, the visa had until recently remained little known outside Silicon Valley, where technology companies use it to employ tens of thousands.

Indians have a long relationship with the H-1B visa. The programme is also the reason for the "rise of Indian-Americans into the highest educated and highest earning group, immigrant or native in the US", say the authors of The Other One Percent, a study on Indians in America.

So I came in on an L-1B visa, which is for an intra-company transfer to help on a project. Then, I applied for the H-1B Visa. H-1B is mainly for high-skilled workers. It helped me gain more ...