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This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West.
Highly skilled immigrant tech workers in the US are eyeing relocation to Canada, the UK, or the Gulf as H-1B visa uncertainty continues to haunt them.
On June 8, a US judge ruled Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas unenforceable, citing that the government lacked the authority to impose it. The ruling should have offered relief to thousands of immigrant tech workers. However, for many, the fee was only the latest reminder of how quickly the rules governing their lives can change.
Foreign workers, immigration experts, and recruiters say that uncertainty itself is becoming a deterrent. Tech workers are finding alternatives to the US, where they can find lucrative jobs with stable immigration laws. Companies have devised ways to move staff to other countries to bypass US immigration bottlenecks.
H-1B visa registrations for fiscal year 2027, applications for which closed on March 19, fell 38.5% from a year earlier.
“Global talent does not wait for the US to get its policy house in order,” Danielle Goldman, co-founder and CEO of immigration advisory Build Talent Labs, told Rest of World. “Even though the fee has now been struck down, the damage is not just legal, it is psychological and strategic … The policy created confusion, and confusion is enough to stop hiring.”
Canada, the European Union, the UK, and the UAE, among other places, are “competing aggressively” for talent that US companies and universities have historically attracted, Goldman said.
“They are building immigration products around certainty, speed, and welcome,” she said. “If the US restores predictability, it can remain the top destination. If not, we should expect talent to move – because talent always has options.”
A 35-year-old artificial intelligence researcher told Rest of World that she is relocating to the UAE after spending 13 years in the US to gain greater stability in both her professional and personal life. She asked to remain anonymous, fearing backlash from U.S. authorities.
Her spouse – also a researcher – moved to the UAE in January to pursue a promising grant. She wanted to take a one-year sabbatical from her role at a university to spend time with her partner. However, her employer did not immediately agree because it would have to pay the $100,000 fee when she returned.
“This fee has been voided, but the sentiment remains that immigration uncertainty makes such arrangements for researchers difficult,” she said.
On the anonymous employee review app Blind, employees of five US Big Tech companies – Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, and Nvidia – discussed the June 8 court ruling over 90% less than the September 2025 fee announcement, the company told Rest of World.
The few posts about the ruling that did appear were sarcastic or skeptical, saying things like “it’ll get appealed”, and “don’t celebrate yet”.
“When a group that reacted so intensely against bad news can’t muster a reaction to good news, that’s a trust signal you won’t find in hiring statistics or court filings,” Sunguk Moon, CEO at TeamBlind, told Rest of World in an e-mail interview.
On Blind, discussions about Microsoft’s Project Move – which temporarily transfers staff to Vancouver, Canada, and later brings them back to the US on L-1 visas – held steady for 18 months straight, Moon said.
“People are still leaving, or still planning to,” Moon said. “People don’t give up their current visa [H-1B] for a complicated multi-year workaround [L-1] casually. And the fact that they’re doing it steadily for a year and a half says they’ve stopped waiting for US policy to improve and started building around it. That kind of behavior doesn’t reverse fast.”
Research from 2020 warned that legal restrictions on high-skilled immigration can lead companies to offshore skilled jobs. American Big Tech firms added 32,000 jobs in India, clocking a three-year record high.
The US has long been the top destination for international students, with most of them coming from India and China. But restrictive US policies have begun to hit enrollments.
International students continue to value the U.S. for its advanced technology education and robust job market, but immigration policies are increasingly seen as hostile.
“For most Indian tech professionals, a US tech job had always been a dream. It was not just about the paycheck – it was a pathway to overall success. Now that dream no longer exists or has diminished,” Neeti Sharma, CEO of talent solutions firm TeamLease Digital, told Rest of World.
Between 2022 and 2024, over 80,000 Indian H-1B holders lost US tech jobs, each facing a 60-day countdown to leave the country, Sharma added. “The administration’s tightening of immigration stance has also added major uncertainty. Hence, for many new STEM graduates, the American dream does not seem as viable as before,” she said.
After the announcement of the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, most Indian students in a survey said they were reconsidering their plans to study in the US because of policy-related insecurity. The students did not feel confident in studying in the country despite a clarification that the fee did not apply to them, according to Keystone Education Group
Foreign-born workers make up a significant share of the US STEM workforce. This is why universities, research labs, and advanced tech employers are often pro-skilled-worker immigration.
Since 1990, immigrants have accounted for one-third of US Nobel Prize winners in science and economics and have filed more than a quarter of the roughly 110,000 patents granted annually in the country.
Goldman rejects the idea that immigrant talent and Americans compete against one another. Rather than shutting out foreign talent, America could use it to strengthen its own innovation ecosystem, she said.
“America won the last era of innovation because the world’s best people could come here, study here, stay here, and build here. If we break the ‘stay and build’ part, we should not be surprised when the next generation of companies is built somewhere else,” she said.
Ananya Bhattacharya is a reporter for Rest of World covering South Asia's tech scene. She is based in Mumbai, India.
This article was originally published in Rest of World, which covers technology’s impact outside the West.
Source: Scroll
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