H-1B curbs open doors for India’s top tech schools

LOSING INTEREST IN US JOBS

- BLOOMBERG

WEEKS AFTER THE US announced steep new fees for H1B visas, large banners at a Delhi metro station outside the Indian Institute of Technology proclaimed:"We still sponsor H1Bs" and "$100K isn't going to stop us from hiring the best," in a nod to the new fee structure.

The campaign by AI recruiting platform Metaview captured a broader sentiment in India's elite tech circles - quiet defiance toward Washington's latest immigration curbs.

That same confidence is evident across the country's network of prestigious engineering schools, the Indian Institutes of Technology. With annual campus recruitment season set to begin in a few weeks, leading faculty and students at two IITs told Bloomberg News that the country's brightest engineers no longer see US jobs as essential for success. "It's possibly an opportunity for some of us," said Rangan Banerjee, the director of IIT-Delhi, referring to both the Trump administration's visa restrictions and broader trade tensions between India and the US.