US Protectionism Targets High-Skilled Professionals: A Challenge for Indian Policymakers and Industry

• The US’s H-1B visa fee hike targets Indians, the biggest beneficiaries of the program, affecting both low and semi-skilled jobs and high-skilled IT jobs.

• The move will impact US companies’ ability to ensure cost-effective labour replacement and pressure firm margins.

• Skilled migrant workers form the core of the US knowledge and innovation ecosystem, with 26% of US-based Nobel Prize winners from 1990 to 2000 being immigrants.

• The visa fee hike will disrupt onshore projects of Indian tech companies, disrupting the Indian IT sector’s task of addressing the fallout of AI adoption.

• The reduced flow of migrants could also impact remittances to India, as the US accounted for 27.7% of all remittances to the country in 2023-24.

• However, visa restrictions could stimulate India’s Global Capacity Centres, with firms opening more offices and hiring more people.

• The decision to charge new applicants for the H-1B highly skilled non-immigrant visa $100,000, nearly six times the current fee, has caused concern that the lives of potential visa applicants in the tech space could be impacted.

• The fallout for Indian citizens can be contained if the Government bolsters India’s infrastructure and undertakes necessary reforms to improve the prospects for the Indian tech industry.

• Policymakers in India need to evolve a long-term plan to reduce reliance of Indian tech workers on the shrinking pool of job opportunities in the U.S. economy.

US Protectionism Impact is important topic for Civil service exam (WBCS).

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