Like India, it was struggling to increase H-1B visa fees, US trade Minister Howard Lutnick has now indicated that the H-1B visa process will undergo redesigned before February 2026, when the newly announced fee of $ 100,000 (Over £88 Lakh) will enter into force. Lutnik, who said that “a significant number of changes” would be introduced, also criticized the concept of “cheap” technical consultants entering the United States with his families and called it “just wrong”.
He said that incoming reforms in the H-1B visa system would tighten it before a steep increase in fees.
At the beginning of this month, Donald Trump’s administration announced a trip in the H-1B visa fee for bringing new workers to a country-command that will affect Indian experts who want to work in the US on temporary visa.
“A real thoughtful change”
In a recent interview, Howard Lutnick mentioned that this process will enter in February 2026 and include a significant number of changes. “This procedure and process will come into force in February 2026, so I think there will be a significant number of changes between them by 2026,” Lutnick said.
Howard Lutnick also said that a “thoughtful” change would be visible in the future.
“There will be a number of changes; they talk about changes – how to get a lottery, should it still be lottery?
He pointed out that the H-1B visa process acts as a lottery, and remembered a recent discussion with the chiefs of the two largest technology companies in the world who described the idea of deciding on the entry of qualified workers to the US through a lottery as “bizarre”.
Lutnick asked why the nation should bring qualified workers in the lottery. “It just doesn’t make sense.”
He said there was a consensus that the H-1B process, which was established in 1990, and the “type of defeated along the way” must change.
To “cheap” technical consultants
He said the visa is 7-10 times “rewritten”, 74 percent of them are tech consulting.
“H1B visas are for technical consultants? I like that it is important that technical consultants are against the coast. He added that the H-1B lottery must be” solid “and the US should give” highly qualified jobs “” most very qualified people “.
He said engineers who hire companies in the US should be highly paid.
“The idea of having technical consultants and trainees who are cheap should be excluded. I have such a strong opinion. I think presidential law with me on the same topics.
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