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Silicon Valley Confusion Over H-1B Visa Spurs Tech Plunge in India
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-23 10:30

Silicon Valley executives spent the weekend trying to determine if tens of thousands of their staff would be impacted by the White House’s sudden decision to levy a 100,000feeonskilledforeignworkervisas,whichpreviouslycost100,000 fee on skilled foreign worker visas, which previously cost 2,000 to $5,000. Such was the confusion that several H-1B holders got off an India-bound Emirates flight from San Francisco before takeoff on Friday. On Monday, it was the tech industry across the Pacific, in the country where that plane was headed, that had the most pressure ...