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Originally Posted by sridharchennai
Is the hike in visa fees going to affect the number people that Indian IT companies will be sending to USA?
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It will effect the number of H1 and L1 visas being processed by large IT companies. Large IT companies are the usual suspects since they process these US immigrant visas for almost any employee who meets the visa criteria irrespective of any immediate need for onsite work. Thus creating a large bench of visa ready employees for future requirements. This was also a very good game plan to fight employee attrition for these companies as they can retain these employees for long time promising a pipeline of onsite work opportunities.
Now with visa fee hike, large IT companies will stop bulk processing US immigrant visas, which means only a few visas will be processed based on immediate and absolute onsite requirement for which another visa ready employee is not available.
This will actually have a big benefit to offshore India based employees. Since attrition will further rise among offshore India based employees thus increasing the salaries at offshore.