Trump administration’s H-1B visa fee hike has no immediate impact on Tata Technologies Ltd, but may alter future resourcing plans, according to CEO Warren Harris, reports PTI.
The US government has imposed a $100,000 fee for H-1B visa petitions starting September 21, 2025, requiring all US employers hiring foreign workers to pay this fee.
The global product engineering and digital services firm, by virtue of its staffing architecture, which has about 70 per cent of its employees in any country coming from that nationality, is less exposed to visa issues than other “Indian competitors that are India out”, Harris told PTI.
“We are not an India-out company. We were very much a global company, with the majority of our employees in different territories who were nationals of those countries. We have Americans running our US operation. We have the Chinese team running our China operation, unlike many of our Indian competitors that are India-out. They are much more exposed to visas,” he said.
Harris was responding to a question on the implications of Trump’s announcement to impose new H-1B visa fees of USD 100,000.
Harris further said, “It will certainly change our resourcing plans for the future, but there is no short-term impact associated with the H-1B decisions that the United States has made.” As of the September quarter of this fiscal year, Tata Technologies had a global workforce of 12,402.
In the 2025 H-1B lottery season, Tata Technologies hired only 68 foreign workers under the foreign worker program.
The Trump’s proclamation on imposing $100k H-1B fee was announced on September 19. The last Notice of the Filing of a Labor Condition Application with the Employment Training Administration by Tata Technologies was posted on 23-Sept-2025.
As per the notice, Tata Technologies, Inc. is seeking an H-1B non-immigrant worker in the Computer Systems Analysts (Senior Business Analyst) occupational classification. The worker is offered an annual salary of $89,814 and is period of employment is from 10/06/2025 to 10/05/2028, with the employment to occur in Detroit, MI and Farmington Hills, MI.
