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Snapshot of the day
September 22, 2025
Sidharth Bhatia
United States President Donald Trump’s sudden and potentially fatal blow to the H-1B visa regime — by which mostly Indian techies and other high-skilled employees fulfilled their so-called ‘American dreams’ — may just be the first punch in a double blow. After the prohibitive $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, the next shock to fear for the Indian IT sector is a proposal for a 25% tax on US firms’ payments to foreign outsourcing companies. So far, the tax spectre is only a Bill, a proposed legislation, introduced in the US Senate early September by Trump's Republican party-mate Bernie Moreno. Called the Halting International Relocation of Employment (HIRE) Act, it has the same argument as Trump's move to put a prohibitive $100,000 fee on H-1B visa: that foreign workers or companies are taking away American jobs and dollars. At its simplest, it means that if an American company outsources its call centre or software backend or data processing tasks, for instance, to a
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