Indian National represents more than 70 percent of all H-1B visas issued in recent years | Photo credit: Istockphoto
The decision of citizenship and immigration services of the United States (USCIS) to take off employees can interrupt visa processing, delay green card approves and hinder industries that depend on foreign talent. Industry experts said these layoffs represent a particular threat to Indian citizens, which form the largest group of applicants for H-1B visas, while the technology specialized in US industries and the health strap for a deeper talent crunch.
In a LinkedIn publication, former USCIS Doug Rand’s main advisor alleged that week, the employees of immigration agencies received an encouraging email issue to retire early or risk being finished through an upcoming reduction in the workforce.
“Ifcis throws employees, the attacks and the processing times shoot. The members of the Congress, the Republicans and the Democrats, will be flooded with calls from the constituents desperate for help with the Language Applications. Parents who wait for Taiting Toises or Wife Home as a permanent resident in the need for doctors.
According to Rand, Duration Covid, the USCIS saw a strong decrease in tariff revenues and instituted a contracting freezing, losing about a thousand immigration officers through wear. However, in 2021, the agency hired thousands of new officers and support personnel to improve processing speed and effective research, which resulted in a high rate.
Blow to companies
“By 2023, USCIS had reduced his request for the first time in approximately a decade, even while reciting a record number of applications. Most people waited 8 months or more for a Green Renwal card in 2020, now it is said.”
One of the first effects of a possible personnel reduction would be a massive delay in processing time, extending the waiting time already processed for visas and other applications.
Mameta Shekhawat, founder of Study-Abroad Platform gradding.com, shared that companies that depend on foreign talent, especially in niche industries, would experience serious challenges to hire and maintain the qualified workforce, breakage and economic development.
“The US health system, which depends widely on trained professionals abroad, would also take a severe blow, increasing the current scarcity and raising the risk of compromising patient care. System.
‘Global mobility bottleneck’
Xiphias immigration data show that Indian citizens are the largest beneficiaries of the H-1B Visa program, which represents more than 70 percent of all H-1B visas in recent years. Categories such as F-1 for students and EB-2/EB-3 for employment-based green cards are also based largely. With any USCIS workforce by reducing the size of the threat of the timely processing of these applications, for Indian professionals, the account are the waiting time twice and greater anxiety for the extensions and renovations of the state of the visa.
“The United States is already dealing with historical visa attacks, approximately 4 million in categories sponsored by the family and employment -based, and a drastic cut in labor could wait Immigration.
The impact of these delays will be felt in other sectors that rely on foreign talent, mainly technology and academia. Indian professionals are integrated into the Ecosystem of IT and voice of the USA, maintaining roles such as software engineers, data scientists, cyber security experts and researchers. A deceleration in visa award could lead to a talent crunch, interrupting project deadlines, innovation cycles and even the global competitiveness of US companies.
“The IONY is marked: at a time when the United States is fighting against the competence of AI with China, it runs the risk of strangling its own pipeline of the technological workforce due to internal administrative stagnation. The possible dismissal or the USF not reversed or the digley, since it already moves fast,” said Singh.
Posted on April 14, 2025