Edelweiss’ Radhika Gupta reacts to Donald Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike: ‘I wouldn’t want to go back…’
Radhika Gupta, General Manager of Edelweiss Investment Fund (CEO), reacted to Donald Trump’s movement to increase H-1B visa fees. The US H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa for foreign nationals who want to work in the United States.
Radhika Gupta, who empathized with Indian students studying abroad, shared that it was ‘more favorable’ for students who want to work in the USA after completing the graduation of the Federal government’s H-1B visa norms in the United States.
After the 2008 financial crisis, he said how things returned, and then many Indian students living in the United States began to feel lost or stuck in their places.
Gupta, Social Media Platform LinkedIn’s last task, “2005, I graduated in 2005, when H-1B norms are much more favorable in the United States. However, during the financial crisis, things changed rapidly-many Indian students are sad, disappeared and stuck.”
Has Radhika Gupta studied in the USA?
According to LinkedIn data, Radhika Gupta completed its BSS from the United States of Pennsylvania, the University of Pennsylvania, the United States and Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from the Wharton School.
After completing his graduation, GUPTA, in August 2006, for more than a year before moving to AQR Capital Management, as a business analyst for more than a year, Consultancy Giant McKinsey and Co. continued to work with.
GUPTA reminded that some students returned relatively after 2008 after 2008, while others with H-1B visa no longer want to work in the USA.
“Some finally returned home and years later, even those who still have a visa made the same choice. Today, we have built satisfactory lives here with tremendous professional opportunities and deeper joy of creating in our country,” he said.
In a personal note, Gupta shares that if he had a chance, he would never go back to India, now that India offers opportunities for your youth in the country.
Radhika Gupta said, “I wouldn’t want to go back personally -” he said.
GUPTA’s advice for students
Radhika Gupta shares some advice for students studying in the United States who need to feel a mixture of emotions after US President Donald Trump announced the increase in H-1B visa fee.
He emphasized that an opportunity that covers the door is not the end of the approaching potentials that may come to someone’s way. Gupta said that students should now look at India, which was different from twenty years ago in 2025.
Gupta said, “If you feel shaken or courageous on a US campus right now, I know how it makes it feel. But remember: When a door is closed, many of them return home. And 2025’s India is much more exciting than India in 2005,” he said.
Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike
Mint Previously, US President Donald Trump announced on Friday, September 19, 2025, the federal government decided to pay an annual fee of $ 100,000 for the H-1B visa for high-resourceful foreign professionals who want to work in the United States.
Trump also introduced a $ 1 million “Golden Card” visa, which aims to provide a right way for US citizenship to wealthy foreigners.
According to the US Trade Secretary Howard Lutnick, the movement of Donald Trump’s movement is coming because the US government aims to exploit the national economy without making a significant contribution without making a significant contribution to foreign workers.
Thanks to this new policy change, the US government aims to ensure that foreign workers provide a “important benefit ına to the national economy and people.
