Will anyone pay $100,000 H-1B visa fee? Here’s what ex-Infosys CFO Mohandas Pai says
On Saturday, September 20, 2025, Mohandas Pai, the former Chief Finance Manager of InfoS, said Trump’s H-i-Visa visa applicants are ready to reduce the new visa applications of companies and can accelerate offshoring in the coming months. PTI.
Industrial veteran refused to talk about companies using H-1B visa to send cheap labor to the US and said the average salary of the first 20 H-1B employer has exceeded $ 100,000. According to the agency report, Mohandas Pai also criticized what he calls the wrongly placed “rhetoric version ..
PAI also expects the impact of this H-1B visa fee increase for now, because it only affects new applications and said that existing H-1B visas are “safe ..
Mohandas Pai, Mohandas Pai said, “It does not apply to all H-1B visas that are already there. So only new applications will fall for the future.
Pai in H-1B salaries, offshoring
Mohandas Pai also argued that the salaries offered to H-1B employees are not ‘cheap’.
Pai quoted by the news agency, “People pay more than $ 100,000 as a salary; they are not cheap. They are not cheap. If they pay $ 100,000 to their staff, they demand $ 150,000-160,000 to their customers, so all these cheap, low-skilled people do not hold the idea of sending water,” he said.
In addition, if the cost of recruiting workers in the country is higher or if there is a lack of ability in the country, companies expect to increase possible operations operations. Pai expects this to be potentially in the next six months.
“Now everyone will work to increase offshoring … Because it doesn’t make sense, the first, you can’t get talent, the second, the costs will be very high, the next six months will be up to a year.
Why did Trump increase H-1B visa fees?
The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa in the US that allowed high-resourceful foreign professionals who want to work for a US or a global company.
Mint Previously, US President Donald Trump announced on Friday, September 19, 2025 that the federal government decided to pay a $ 100,000 annual fee to H-1B visas.
Trump reportedly aimed at terminating the practices of foreign workers “working from hardworking Americans” and using the national economy without making significant contributions. With this amendment, the US government aims to ensure that foreign workers provide a “important benefit ına to the national economy.
