Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said his country would soon announce a series of proposals to welcome foreign workers for whom the American dream is now too expensive due to the $100,000 cost of an H-1B visa. "Not many H-1B visa holders will get visas to the United States. These people are skilled, and this is an opportunity for Canada… We'll be making a proposal on this soon," Carney said, adding that these people are entrepreneurial and willing to move to Canada for work. As part of a sweeping overhaul of the work visa system, the Donald Trump administration introduced a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, which will make it more difficult for companies to hire foreign workers, as tech companies will now be forced to pay the fee if they want to hire foreign professionals. This move is aimed at preserving American jobs but will harm foreign workers from India and China. Several countries, including Germany and the UK, have seized this opportunity and turned to Indian specialists.
Indians are already a major source of immigrants to Canada: according to statistics, of the 32,000 tech workers who arrived in Canada from April 2022 to March 2023, approximately 15,000 were Indian. In 2024, approximately 87,000 Indians received Canadian citizenship, making them the largest group among new Canadian citizens. In 2022, approximately 118,095 Indians became permanent residents of Canada, accounting for approximately 27–30% of the total number of new permanent residents.
