Tata Consultancy Services was the second largest sponsor of H-1B visas in the U.S. in the financial year of 2025, second only to Amazon, with 5,505 visas approved, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The Indian tech company is headquartered in Mumbai, but also employs thousands of employees at its U.S. offices.
[CEO K] Krithivasan told the Times of India that the company had around 11,000 employees on H-1B visas as part of its roughly 32,000 workforce in the U.S.
The CEO said that the company would now reduce the number of employees on visas and focus on hiring locally.
$100K per head visa just incentivizes US entities opening foreign offices and foreign entities hiring domestically.
Remote work and collaboration has evolved significantly in the last decade.
For emerging tech companies, the US’ strength has never been the talent pool, it’s the access to a large domestic consumer base and financial markets. Both of which can increasingly be leveraged from abroad.
The knife cuts both ways.
24Seven on
And they’re going to stop outsourcing to companies in India too, right? Right?
When a billionaire makes a claim like this one, it means they’ve found a loophole around the issue.
Geedis2020 on
Good. American jobs shouldn’t be given away to people from other countries that they know they can pay less for and work like slaves.
People like Elon have spread the false narrative that H1B is important because there aren’t enough qualified Americans. It’s not true though. Americans just demand a good work life balance and to be paid accordingly. With H1B they have no friends and family. All they have is work so they can get worked to the bone and companies will pay them the bare minimum to do it. It’s not a shortage of good Americans for the jobs. It’s a shortage of Americans who they can take advantage of.
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Now racists will complain about tech companies hiring US citizens of color.
Tremolat on
Well, duh. There are now enough Indian H-1Bs already in the US looking for renewals, so new applicants aren’t needed.
Turbo_express_Guy on
Baby steps
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Amazon is by far the worst offender.
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AI is doing away with a lot of IT jobs anyways.
Plus in the world of Zoom/Teams, with teams in India flexing work hours to align better with US timings anyways, these companies could probably have a few business development people in the US and have the delivery teams exclusively in India.
So this drop in h1B isn’t going to mean reshoring of IT jobs, if that was the goal.
✅Fewer Indian IT h1bs coming to the US
💥 AI reduces number of such jobs available anyway
❌ Less Indian h1B doesn’t necessarily mean more jobs for US residents/citizens as between AI job elimination and more offshore hiring, there’s probably slim pickings anyway for low to medium level coders and project managers in IT.
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Tata Consultancy Services was the second largest sponsor of H-1B visas in the U.S. in the financial year of 2025, second only to Amazon, with 5,505 visas approved, according to data from the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
The Indian tech company is headquartered in Mumbai, but also employs thousands of employees at its U.S. offices.
[CEO K] Krithivasan told the Times of India that the company had around 11,000 employees on H-1B visas as part of its roughly 32,000 workforce in the U.S.
The CEO said that the company would now reduce the number of employees on visas and focus on hiring locally.
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$100K per head visa just incentivizes US entities opening foreign offices and foreign entities hiring domestically.
Remote work and collaboration has evolved significantly in the last decade.
For emerging tech companies, the US’ strength has never been the talent pool, it’s the access to a large domestic consumer base and financial markets. Both of which can increasingly be leveraged from abroad.
The knife cuts both ways.
And they’re going to stop outsourcing to companies in India too, right? Right?
When a billionaire makes a claim like this one, it means they’ve found a loophole around the issue.
Good. American jobs shouldn’t be given away to people from other countries that they know they can pay less for and work like slaves.
People like Elon have spread the false narrative that H1B is important because there aren’t enough qualified Americans. It’s not true though. Americans just demand a good work life balance and to be paid accordingly. With H1B they have no friends and family. All they have is work so they can get worked to the bone and companies will pay them the bare minimum to do it. It’s not a shortage of good Americans for the jobs. It’s a shortage of Americans who they can take advantage of.
Now racists will complain about tech companies hiring US citizens of color.
Well, duh. There are now enough Indian H-1Bs already in the US looking for renewals, so new applicants aren’t needed.
Baby steps
Amazon is by far the worst offender.
AI is doing away with a lot of IT jobs anyways.
Plus in the world of Zoom/Teams, with teams in India flexing work hours to align better with US timings anyways, these companies could probably have a few business development people in the US and have the delivery teams exclusively in India.
So this drop in h1B isn’t going to mean reshoring of IT jobs, if that was the goal.
✅Fewer Indian IT h1bs coming to the US
💥 AI reduces number of such jobs available anyway
❌ Less Indian h1B doesn’t necessarily mean more jobs for US residents/citizens as between AI job elimination and more offshore hiring, there’s probably slim pickings anyway for low to medium level coders and project managers in IT.