{"id":4078,"date":"2026-04-03T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/skilled-foreign-workers-think-about-leaving-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T15:59:21","slug":"skilled-foreign-workers-think-about-leaving-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/skilled-foreign-workers-think-about-leaving-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Skilled Foreign Workers Think About Leaving the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"css-8hvvyd\">These highly skilled, highly educated foreign workers have been documenting the challenges of trying to build a career in the U.S. \u201cIf I don\u2019t find a job, I have to leave the country.\u201d \u201cI sent out 907 applications.\u201d \u201cHave I ever truly relaxed in America?\u201d They need an H-1B visa, which is given through a lottery system that allows U.S. companies to hire highly skilled international professionals for up to six years, in industries like tech and medicine. But the Trump administration has made changes to the program, requiring companies to pay a high fee and enforcing new rules that prioritize higher-paid foreign workers, in an effort to make more jobs available to Americans. This has forced some foreigners to rethink their career plans. \u201cI think the U.S. is still the golden standard.\u201d Wen-Hsing Huang came to the U.S. from Taiwan in 2022 for the tech scene, and was hired by Amazon on an H-1B visa. \u201cI want to use my talents to change the world, and I think the United States was the best platform to do that.\u201d Ananya Joshi came from India to attend a master\u2019s program in Chicago in 2022. \u201cSo it was actually my my father\u2019s dream that I had inherited because my father couldn\u2019t go because of his financial situation.\u201d Haina, a Chinese national, fell in love with the U.S. while studying in New York. She got her H-1B in 2022. \u201cI remember there were a lot of companies, they would be able to sponsor.\u201d Haina said she\u2019s experienced a recent shift, where it has become harder to find companies that sponsor H-1B visas. \u201cThis time when I was job searching, I didn\u2019t realize it could be a deal breaker. I just had my second interview of 2026, and it was a pretty short call.\u201d (Recruiter) \u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re eligible or able to do sponsorship for this role at the moment.\u201d \u201cThey don\u2019t even really get to know if I\u2019m qualified, am I experienced, or anything. The decision is already made at that point.\u201d \u201cPlease, please make sure that the company you\u2019re about to work for has experience handling international hires.\u201d Joshi said a start-up she interned with during grad school rescinded their promise to sponsor her H-1B visa. \u201cAsk for everything in writing. And then there were jobs that were contract jobs. They would just reject me. They would only need people with a green card or a U.S. citizenship.\u201d Even with an H-1B and a six-figure salary, Huang said he felt himself becoming anxious, as tech layoffs ramped up and Trump\u2019s immigration policies kept changing. \u201cI woke up every morning with this knot in my stomach, because my entire life depended on the policy I couldn\u2019t control. The United States seems not very welcoming to immigrants that contribute to this country.\u201d \u201cThe signals are, like, pretty clear at this point. They want to make this H-1B, is, like, risky and also, like, harder.\u201d Hello, everyone.\u201d Despite that, Haina says she\u2019s determined to keep looking for a job until she\u2019s forced to leave the country. \u201cThe pressure about where I\u2019m going to be in the next of my career or, like, my life. I sort of like lost the ability to enjoy my life or just be happy.\u201d \u201cSo I had to leave the U.S. Of course, I expanded my search beyond the U.S. Found a job in Germany.\u201d Joshi packed up her life and started a new role with a European biotech firm in January. \u201cI think I left at a good time, because there would have been more stress. I would have been stuck in a loop.\u201d \u201cIt\u2019s an endless cycle of anxiety.\u201d After quitting his job at Amazon, Huang is now back in Taiwan, planning to launch his own company. \u201cTo bet on building an A.I. company that gives me complete control over my time, location and future. Staying in the United States is no longer the only way to achieve my American dream.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These highly skilled, highly educated foreign workers have been documenting the challenges of trying to build a career in the U.S. \u201cIf I don\u2019t find a job, I have to leave the country.\u201d \u201cI sent out 907 applications.\u201d \u201cHave I ever truly relaxed in America?\u201d They need an H-1B visa, which is given through a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2842,2327,2841,581,380],"class_list":["post-4078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-foreign","tag-leaving","tag-skilled","tag-u-s","tag-workers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.insuracarelife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}