A debate over the program for skilled foreign workers has pitted immigration hard-liners against some of President Trump’s most influential supporters in the tech industry.

BENGALURU: Ever since the announcement of the H-1B visa reform programme, foreign talent, especially Indians studying or working in the US have been concerned about uncertainties, and with US President Donald Trump’s executive order on birthright citizenship,

Temporary visas like H-1B and L1, which are used by thousands of Indians, are in Donald Trump and his MAGA's crosshairs. But for rich Indians, permanent residency in the US is a check away. With an investment of about a million dollars,

But there’s ample evidence the H-1B helps pretty much everyone else. Workers who enter the country on visas go on to start and run billion-dollar companies. Musk says he entered the country on a visa. He now runs Tesla, which employs more than 100,000 people .

Tesla founder Elon Musk is a vocal proponent of H-1B visas, and his company's use of the program jumped sharply this year.

Vivek Ramaswamy has said that Donald Trump's inauguration on Monday will bring the "dawn of a new Golden Age."

For every H-1B visa holder who thrives in and contributes to our country’s economy and culture, we can point to many more students already in the U.S. who have few opportunities to develop their strengths into true excellence.

Tesla laid off roughly 6,600 workers. According to labor statistics, it filed about 1,300 H-1B visa applications around the same time.

Arun Prasad Jaganathan has worked in the US on an H-1B Visa for years. He says there's room for improvement in the system.

Federal prosecutors claimed the two falsely stated in 85 visa applications that prospective H-1B holders would work on-site on internal projects at their San Jose computer chip business,

In recent weeks, there's been a debate among conservatives over the H-1B visa program. State Department data shows that workers from India received the majority of H-1B visas issued last year.

So I came in on an L-1B visa, which is for an intra-company transfer to help on a project. Then, I applied for the H-1B Visa. H-1B is mainly for high-skilled workers. It helped me gain more ...