--- title: "What is H-1B Visa future?" description: "What is H-1B Visa future?" author: "Siris Jain" published: 2018-01-03 updated: 2018-01-05 canonical: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32437/what-is-h-1b-visa-future category: "gadgets" tags: ["h-1b visa"] reading_time: 3 minutes --- # What is H-1B Visa future? What is H-1B Visa [future](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/198794/the-future-focused-learning-the-rundown-of-stem-education)? ## Answers ### Answer by Vishal Kesarwani **[h-1b](https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32439/what-is-h-1b) is a non-immigrant visa that allows employers to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations for up to six years.** ![What is H-1B Visa future?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/56725f01-2795-4164-a179-aa96c06d3c00/images/89baaafa-97c5-4980-9804-ba587e2ece1d.png)**\**In simple words, it’s a visa which allows **US corporations and companies to recruit worker from different countries** who are having a professional degree or you can say a graduation degree in any stream such as IT, finance, accounting, architecture, engineering, mathematics, science, medicine, etc. for occupation in any specialized fields. \ **Trump’s order to review the H-1B visa policy** Obtaining an H1B visa that is allotted through **a lottery system has become progressively arduous within the past few years.** The Department of independent agency presently caps the number of H1B visas granted at **65,000 per twelve months, with a further 25,000 reserved for candidates** with advanced degrees. Last year, **DHS received an amazing 233,000 H1B petitions** in as very little as a week; solely a bit over a simple fraction of petitioners received one in every one of the sought-after visas. \ **As US people getting thrown out of the company and replaced by Indian people** who are coming from Tata, Infosys, Cognizant and Wipro Due to this **Trump ordered to review the H-1B visa policy** and if this happens then what will change. This is what U.S President said: ![What is H-1B Visa future?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/56725f01-2795-4164-a179-aa96c06d3c00/images/ef3668b2-7ec9-4a53-99d8-1df6a89b96d4.png)\ **“The influx of foreign workers holds down salaries, keeps unemployment high, and makes it difficult for poor and working-class Americans — including immigrants themselves and their children — to earn a middle-class wage. … We need companies to hire from the domestic pool of unemployed. Petitions for workers should be mailed to the unemployment office, not USCIS [U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services].”** **\****What effect will it have on India?** H-1B system will be merit-based rather than random. The TCS and Infosys **companies will get affected or you can say the IT sector growth rate may decrease in the US.** Because **Trump wanted that only the highest Paid applicant should be selected and TCS and Infosys are taking more applicants with less package.** This policy doesn't affect the highest paying companies like Facebook, Google, Apple, Amazon, and Microsoft\ ![What is H-1B Visa future?](https://answers.mindstick.com/questionanswer/56725f01-2795-4164-a179-aa96c06d3c00/images/17d2acfb-ec4c-4e57-94b5-74dfc76de147.png)\ **\****Indian employees who are been working in America will have to return to India.** As Donald Trump clearly said that **“buy Americans and Hire Americans”.** Due to this job rates will be decreased in India of IT companies.\ **Featuring its effect on future** Talking about the future as after Donald Trump consider his plans and quoted the changes which will be legalized [**OUR LEADERS**](https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/12303/fm-arun-jaitly-raises-h-1b-visa-issue-with-us-commerce-secretary) also warn that if Indian worker will get deported from U.S companies it will also cause and effect U.S economy. Although, **with this new set of rules thousands of Indian employees who are waiting for the green card will get deported back to India.** **\****READ THIS: [Arun Jaitley raises h-1b visa Issue with US commerce secretary](https://www.mindstick.com/Articles/12303/fm-arun-jaitly-raises-h-1b-visa-issue-with-us-commerce-secretary)** --- Original Source: https://answers.mindstick.com/qa/32437/what-is-h-1b-visa-future Copyright © MindStick Software Pvt. Ltd. This Markdown version is provided for developers, AI systems, and offline reading.