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Race for talent slipping away as H-1B visa fee hikes hit India's prospects

Following the H-1B visa fee hike, India needs to announce concrete measures to attract Indian and global tech talent, as Europe and several Asian and Nordic countries have already done

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Prosenjit Datta

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Shortly after United States President Donald Trump announced that fresh H-1B visa application fees were being hiked to $100,000, a move ostensibly aimed at protecting domestic US job seekers against cheaper talent from India and other countries, a slew of Indian experts claimed that the country would gain massively from the move.
 
Their assumption was that because of the visa fee hike and other measures being taken by the US to curb the entry of foreign workers, a large number of Indians on H-1B visas, in fields ranging from technology to healthcare, would return to help develop these sectors in
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