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Trump’s H-1B visa squeeze paves way for Indian tech exodus

South China Morning Post 20 May 2026 13h ago
Trump’s H-1B visa squeeze paves way for Indian tech exodus
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For generations of Indian tech workers, the H-1B visa has been a golden ticket, turning ambitious engineers from Hyderabad and Bengaluru into Silicon Valley professionals, as it transformed Indian IT firms into global powerhouses. Now, a Trump administration proposal to sharply raise the minimum salaries required to qualify for the programme threatens to close that door to the United States, redir
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