A US-based AI recruitment firm visited IIT Delhi for placements and assured students that the $100,000 H-1B visa fee imposed by the Trump administration will not stop them from sponsoring visas. The high fee was introduced to encourage companies to hire US talent instead of foreign workers. Metaview, a San Francisco-based AI company, used social media to target the H-1B visa issue. Shahriar Tajbakhsh, the firm’s co-founder and CTO, called the $100,000 fee a “rounding error” compared to the value each team member brings. He wrote, "If you're on an H-1B visa and your company doesn't value you enough to pay the $100k, check out to see if any of our roles might be a fit." Tajbakhsh also said, "I'm seeing many companies from other countries using this as an opportunity to say, 'come work in country X.' That feels a bit desperate to me. Instead, come work with @MetaviewAI -- right here in San Francisco." He added that Metaview moves fast, giving candidates an offer or rejection within 24 hours but expects 4-5 hours of interview time. A student at IIT Delhi told PTI, "We want to work in India for sure. But the exposure one gets abroad, in a diverse and fast-moving environment, is different. Strict visa rules are a big setback. So companies offering sponsorship is a huge thing for us." Tajbakhsh himself came to the US on an EB-1A visa, granted to people with extraordinary abilities in science, arts or business. He told Business Insider that their company plans to submit more H-1B petitions in the next lottery. "One executive order will not change my belief that an organization's success or failure is a function of its people," he said. The H-1B visa debate has resurfaced as President Donald Trump said in an interview that the US needs some foreign talent but the program should be suspended, stirring controversy among his supporters.