The recent US government decision to impose a staggering $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications has sent a shockwave through the global tech landscape. This move, a dramatic increase from the previous cost of around $2,000 to $5,000 , is fundamentally reshaping the economics of deploying Indian professionals to the US. For Indian IT professionals and the firms that employ them, the ramifications are immediate and profound. This data-driven analysis explores how the H-1
