"I came here 10 years ago with Amazon, made a life here, and I'm thankful to the USA. That morning, before the Trump administration clarified current holders wouldn't be affected, I thought there was no way I could raise $100,000 to pay this fee and that I would eventually need to leave or be removed by ICE. Me and my wife planned everything: what should we do with our dog, how to pack everything, how long we have."
"He initially thought the new $100,000 H-1B fee would apply to him - and for a few harrowing hours, he and his wife began making plans to uproot their lives and return to India. He says the episode shook his confidence. After nine years of waiting for a green card, and with no guarantee that future policy changes won't upend his family's life, Singh says he is still considering moving back to India for the first time since he arrived in the US."
Abhishek Singh, a 42-year-old software engineering manager in Washington state, has lived in the United States for about a decade on an H-1B visa. A proposed $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas initially led him to believe current visa holders would be affected, triggering immediate plans to return to India with his wife. The administration later clarified the fee applies only to new H-1Bs, but the episode undermined his confidence. After nine years waiting for a green card and fearing future policy changes could disrupt his family's life, he is now seriously considering moving back to India.
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