At the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2025, Andhra Pradesh Minister for IT and Electronics, Nara Lokesh, shared his insights on the H-1B visa policy and its implications for India.

"Why is this being suppressed? I talked to a bunch of mainstream media. They go, we've not heard of this. We haven't heard of the murder."

Recent debates in the US about stricter immigration rules have spooked me and the legal team at the company where I work.

The changes are some of President Biden's last immigration acts ahead of President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration.

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 .

While President Trump welcomed skilled immigrants, he also opposed birthright citizenship for children born in the US to parents with temporary visas, including H-1B holders.

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

Proposed changes to the H-1B visa programme include raising the minimum salary requirement from $60,000 to $120,000 or higher, potentially affecting entry- and mid-level professionals.

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

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,

Steve Bannon, once President-elect Donald Trump’s chief strategist, termed the H-1B visa program a “total and complete scam.” Many Trump supporters sided with Bannon. So did Bernie Sanders ...