National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM), connected Monday (September 22, 2025) issued a connection aft the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) clarified connected the U.S. Donald Trump’s proclamation of hiking the H-1B visa fee to $100,000.
In a FAQ, USCIS said that the September 19 proclamation took an “important, initial, and incremental step” to betterment the H-1B visa programme to curb abuses and support American workers.
The NASSCOM connection further said “On September 20, 2025, the White House issued clarifications connected the caller proclamation introducing a $100,000 yearly interest connected H-1B visa applications. The clarification makes wide that the measurement volition not impact existent visa holders and volition use arsenic a one-time interest lone to caller petitions. This has helped code the contiguous ambiguity surrounding eligibility and timelines. This alleviates concerns connected concern continuity and uncertainty for H-1B holders that were extracurricular the U.S.”
It further added “Moreover, with the interest being applicable from 2026 onward, gives companies clip to further measurement up skilling programs successful US and heighten section hiring. The manufacture is spending much than a cardinal dollars connected section upskilling and hiring successful the US, and the fig of section hires has accrued tremendously.”
The Nasscom said “Over the years, Indian and India-centric companies operating successful the U.S. person importantly reduced their dependencies connected H-1B visas and steadily accrued their section hiring. As per disposable data, H-1B issued to the starring India and India centric companies has decreased from 14792 successful 2015 to 10162 successful 2024. H-1B workers for the apical 10 Indian and India centric companies are little than 1% of their full worker base. Given this trajectory, we expect lone a marginal interaction for the sector.”
The connection said “H- 1B is precocious skilled idiosyncratic mobility and a non-immigrant visa that bridges captious skills spread successful the US. Salaries are astatine par with section hires. Moreover, H-1B workers are a specified decimal constituent of wide U.S. workforce.”
Nasscom has consistently advocated for predictable and unchangeable skilled endowment mobility frameworks, which are captious for sustaining nationalist competitiveness and person agelong fuelled U.S. innovation and economical growth. Skilled endowment mobility volition beryllium cardinal to enabling businesses to marque forward-looking concern decisions, accelerate research, and fortify nations’ presumption successful the planetary innovation economy.
