MEDIA: Steep H-1B fee hike to burn a big hole in IT companies pockets

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| While product companies like Apple and Google, or banking
| institutions may file one H-1B petition every three years and incur
| minimal costs, companies that perform short-term contracts for an
| end client - typically Indian IT companies - are likely to pay these
| fees four or five times over the same period and are in danger of
| being priced out of the visa process, he said.
|
| "It is no secret to anyone who practices employment-based business
| immigration that USCIS has been trying for decades to eliminate
| Indian IT companies from the H-1B program. This is merely the latest
| tactic to achieve this goal," Wasden told ET. "They are trying to
| make the process so expensive for companies doing third-party
| placement that they will go out of business," he added.
|
| Wasden represents US industry body IT Serve Alliance, one of the
| plaintiffs challenging the fee rule in court.

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