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Canada PM Mark Carney says his state volition instrumentality overseas workers arsenic US hikes H-1B visa fee.
Canada Prime Minister Mark Carney said his state volition soon denote immoderate proposals to instrumentality successful overseas workers for whom the American imagination is present excessively costly due to the fact that of the $100,000 H-1B visa fee.
"Not arsenic galore H1B visa holders volition get visas successful the US. These radical are skilled, and this is an accidental for Canada... We volition soon bring a connection connected this," Carney said, adding that these radical are enterprising and consenting to determination for work.In a large overhaul of the employment-based visa system, the Donald Trump medication has imposed a $100,000 interest connected H-1B visas which volition marque it hard for companies to prosecute overseas workers, arsenic tech companies volition present person to wage this interest if they privation to prosecute overseas workers.
The determination is aimed astatine redeeming jobs for Americans, portion it volition wounded overseas workers from India and China.
Several countries, including Germany and the UK, person seized the accidental and reached retired to Indian talent.Read: Germany, UK, Canada rotation retired reddish carpet for India's tech talent
Indians successful Canada
Indians are already Canada's apical root of immigrants, arsenic figures uncover that retired of 32,000 tech workers who migrated to Canada from April 2022 to March 2023, astir 15,000 were Indian. In 2024, astir 87,000 Indians obtained Canadian citizenship, making them the largest radical among caller Canadian citizens.In 2022, astir 118,095 Indians became imperishable residents successful Canada. That was astir 27-30% of each caller imperishable residents.
