Big US tech companies like Meta, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google have hired over 32,000 new employees in India this year. This big jump comes as US H-1B visa rules tightened with higher fees and stricter wage requirements. Data from specialist firm Xpheno showed the combined India workforce of these firms hit 214,000, marking the fastest growth in three years. Entrepreneur and podcast host Mario Nawfal said, "As US H-1B visa rules tightened this year with higher fees and wage requirements, Big Tech responded predictably: they hired offshore instead. Meta, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix, and Google pushed their combined India workforce to 214,000, the fastest growth in three years. That's 32,000+ new hires that could have gone to Americans. These aren't call center jobs. They're AI, machine learning, cloud engineering, data science, and cybersecurity roles." He added, "The irony is brutal: visa curbs designed to prioritize American workers just made it cheaper and easier for corporations to offshore the same jobs remotely. No visa required. No wage floor. No American hired. This is the loophole nobody closed. You can restrict who comes here to work. You can't restrict who works from there. Until policy addresses corporate offshoring directly, companies will keep doing the math and choosing the cheaper option overseas. American workers keep losing." Influencer James Blunt also commented, "I’m hearing this directly from executives, the uncertainty was the final shove. Offshoring offers certainty + scalability and zero U.S. regulatory risk. If the goal was to keep jobs in America, this did the opposite." Key H-1B changes introduced by the Trump administration beginning 2025 include a $100,000 visa fee for companies hiring new H-1B employees outside the US, social media checks for visa applicants, and ending the random lottery system. Instead, a wage-based selection may give priority to higher-paying jobs, though this proposal faces legal challenges. Despite the high fees, big tech firms appear to be offshoring tech jobs to India, including AI, cloud, and cybersecurity roles. This shift exposes a policy loophole where visa restrictions push companies to hire overseas rather than in America.