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Trump just dropped the mic on globalization with a <\/span>$100K H1B visa fee<\/b>. Let\u2019s be honest: this is less about jobs and more about misplaced bravado. The logic seems simple \u2014 make it unaffordable, save jobs. The reality? Those same jobs will be done from India, Vietnam, Eastern Europe\u2026 anywhere but the US. America loses talent, loses taxes, loses innovation. That\u2019s the real problem with <\/span>Trump H1B policy<\/b> \u2014 it\u2019s short-term applause at the cost of long-term competitiveness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Twenty years ago, this might have worked. Today, in the world of remote, cloud, and borderless work, it\u2019s a slow self-goal. India, meanwhile, just got a happy coincidence. With the <\/span>IndiaAI Mission<\/b> selecting companies like Fractal and Tech Mahindra to build indigenous LLMs, we\u2019re staring at a once-in-a-lifetime chance to not miss the AI bus. We\u2019ve already missed the tech revolution, the computer revolution, the mobile revolution, the chip revolution. We can\u2019t afford to miss AI. And with the <\/span>H1B visa fee<\/b> wall in place, talent has more reason than ever to stay back.<\/span><\/p>\n

This H1B wall means talent stays back. Which means brainpower builds here, not abroad. Not just in AI, but in healthcare, fintech, climate-tech. For me, it\u2019s healthcare \u2014 with Solh, we\u2019re using AI to transform<\/span> stress management<\/span><\/a> into something measurable, personal, and scalable. That\u2019s why the debate on <\/span>globalization and H1B<\/b> isn\u2019t just about visas \u2014 it\u2019s about where the future gets built.<\/span><\/p>\n

And while I think the US is well within its rights to do this \u2014 it\u2019s a bad call. A protectionist sugar high that won\u2019t last. Because talent doesn\u2019t need a visa stamp anymore. Whether you call it <\/span>H1b<\/b>, <\/span>h1bvisa<\/b>, or track it under <\/span>h1bfees<\/b>, the world has moved on. The <\/span>H1B visa fee<\/b> hike may keep people out of the US, but it won\u2019t keep innovation from happening elsewhere.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump just dropped the mic on globalization with a $100K H1B visa fee. Let\u2019s be honest: this is less about jobs and more about misplaced bravado. The logic seems simple \u2014 make it unaffordable, save jobs. The reality? Those same jobs will be done from India, Vietnam, Eastern Europe\u2026 anywhere but the US. America loses […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2404,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-affairs"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nH1B Visa Fee Hike: Trump\u2019s Policy, Globalization & India\u2019s AI Opportunity<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Trump\u2019s $100K H1B visa fee aims to protect US jobs but may backfire. 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