By News18,Shankhyaneel Sarkar

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Immigration lawyer Loveline Gill on Friday said the H-1B visa helped America emerge as a leader in cutting-edge innovation, but warned that President Donald Trump’s new rules could push talent to other countries such as Canada, which offers an easier path to permanent residency.
Speaking to CNN-News18, Gill highlighted that the US President remain silent on the future of the H-1B visa when he was on the campaign trail last year.
“Earlier, Trump’s position on H-1Bs was neutral because he needed the backing of tech companies during the election. This shift comes as a surprise. If restrictions continue, H-1B talent will look at alternative destinations such as Canada, where permanent residency offers a clearer path to jobs,” Gill said.
“The H-1B visa is what made America a leader in cutting-edge technology and innovation. It is highly unlikely that companies will pay $100,000 for just one employee,” she further added.

VIDEO | Harish Bijoor, Brand Guru & Founder, Harish Bijoor Consults Inc, on H-1B visa issue says, “The H-bomb has been dropped and this H-bomb is really the H-1B VISA bomb. The United States of America is telling Indian IT and possibly India, ‘we don’t want you, we don’t need… pic.twitter.com/s3AhONeIyh
— Press Trust of India (@PTI_News) September 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation hiking H-1B visa fees to $100,000 a year, calling it a move to curb misuse of the programme.
White House staff secretary Will Scharf said the visa system, meant for highly skilled roles that Americans do not take up, has become “one of the most abused” in the immigration process. The administration argued the steep fee will ensure only top talent enters the US without displacing local workers.
Tariff Bomb 2.0
Founder of Dissident Project and Manhattan Institute fellow Daniel Di Martino appeared to offer the same point of view and highlighted that the new rules “will destroy the health care, higher education and technology sectors as we know them” in a tweet that is going viral.
“This will effectively end the H-1B program completely. No one, even the highest paid at 500K will be paying an extra 100K a year to the government,” Martino said, adding that the courts in the US could provide a recourse.
Calling it an ‘H-bomb,’ brand guru Harish Bijoor said the executive order hit Indian IT with the same sense of sudden shock that the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki once carried.

SUMMARY OF H-1B EXECUTIVE ORDER
– ENTRY BAN: No H-1B visa holder may enter the United States beginning Sunday September 21st, including current visa holders, unles they pay $100K to enter.
– VISA FEE: New H-1B and H-1B extensions must pay 100K to be processed and 100K per year…
— Daniel Di Martino ???? (@DanielDiMartino) September 20, 2025

“The H-bomb has been dropped and this H-bomb is really the H-1B VISA bomb. The United States of America is telling Indian IT and possibly India, ‘we don’t want you, we don’t need you’,” he said while speaking to news agency PTI.
He said that this could be the “tariff bomb, the 2.0 version”.
“This is serious messaging coming at India, how to react to it and how to actually manage it with diplomacy… I do believe this is version 2.0 of the tariff bomb,” he further added.
Trump had invoked the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), a 1977 law crafted for sanctions and financial controls in times of foreign emergencies, to impose reciprocal tariffs on dozens of countries. India was slapped with 25 per cent tariffs, but the rate of tariffs was increased to 50 per cent for buying Russian crude. However, officials from both nations continue trade and tariff negotiations.