According to the report, since the U.S. government announced that H-1B visa applicants would pay $100,000 a year or not to enter the U.S., a large number of Indian employees working with the visa in the U.S. have been rushing back to the U.S. to retain their visas and avoid payment of application fees. Then, some U.S. netizens are calling on other netizens to book flights from India to the U.S. According to the platform rules, even if the reservant did not pay for the ticket, the seat will be reserved for the reservant for 15 minutes. These U.S. netizens believe that as long as there are enough users to book tickets at the same time, the seats are kept locked, causing Indian employees to be unable to buy tickets back to the U.S. and lose their visas and jobs.

The initiative was initiated by a group of users of the U.S. ¡°4Chan¡± forum, who complained that the U.S. H-1B visa allowed a large number of foreigners to enter the U.S. and robbed jobs that should belong to Americans.

An American netizen who should act said that he has long dominated 100 seats with various tools, and participants gave screenshots showing that with the active participation of U.S. netizens, India's return to the U.S. ticket prices are also rising.

Today India on Monday that the move by U.S. netizens was aimed at ¡°the Indians with the highest percentage of H-1B visa holders¡± and denounced the move as disrupting the travel of Indians.

Notably, even if White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt clarified on X that "those who already hold an H-1B visa and are currently abroad will not be charged the $100,000 re-entry fee." But companies such as Amazon.com, Microsoft and JPMorgan have instructed their employees on H-1B visas to stay in the U.S. or return immediately.

According to the Indian Express, 72% of the 400,000 H-1B visas issued by the U.S. between October 2022 and September 2023, were issued to Indian citizens.

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