Jaishankar’s Global Workforce Call Amid H-1B Visa Fee Surge: A Veiled Message to Trump

Jaishankar’s Global Workforce Call: External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar emphasizes the necessity of a global workforce, indirectly addressing President Trump’s H-1B visa fee hike, highlighting challenges faced by Indian professionals.

In a pointed remark seemingly aimed at U.S. President Donald Trump’s new H-1B visa diktat, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar underscored the importance of a global workforce, stressing that local populations of many nations cannot meet their labor demands and depend on migrants for the same.

Mr. Jaishankar’s comments come amid India’s trade and tariff challenges with the U.S., as Trump’s hardline approach to immigration, including a new $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, continues to affect Indian professionals who make up the majority of beneficiaries of these temporary work visas in America.

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External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar on the H-1B program

In his order, Trump has claimed that the H-1B program has been ‘deliberately exploited’ to replace U.S. workers with lower-paid foreign labor, mostly Indians, and pose a “national security risk”. He justified the unprecedented fee as a way to curb what he called ‘systemic abuse’.

Addressing the event ‘At the Heart of Development: Aid, Trade, and Technology’ hosted by the Observer Research Foundation (ORF) on the margins of the UN General Assembly session on Wednesday, Jaishankar called for the creation of a more acceptable, contemporary, efficient model of a global workforce.

“Where that global workforce is to be housed and located may be a matter of political debate. But there’s no getting away. Demand cannot be satisfied in many countries due to national demography alone, he noted, if you look at both supply and demand.

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Jaishankar’s Global Workforce Call: The External Affairs Minister also called for a contemporary, efficient model of a global workforce that can be distributed across different regions.

How “do you de-risk, how do you hedge, how do you become more resilient, how do you safeguard yourself against unanticipated scenarios, which again I emphasize by definition are unforeseen, and truly develop policies and programs around that?” is likely the key question in diplomacy today. “That is a huge challenge for the world as a whole,” he stated.