Like many of Silicon Valley’s workers who are here as part of the H-1B visa program, which is aimed at highly skilled
workers, Mr. Gopal was born in India, attended university in the United States and got a job at a tech company.
“My family lives in India and I love that country,” said Mr. Jaladi, “but I have spent
my adult life in the United States and it definitely feels like more of a home to me.”
Mr. Jaladi commutes an hour each day to work as the head of information security at Gusto, a company
that provides human resources services to small businesses.
Shub Jain, a 26-year-old software engineer there, graduated from the University of California, San Diego, in 2014, worked at Microsoft
and last fall moved to San Francisco for a job at the H. R.
He has been working on an extended student visa and has lost out on the H-1B visa lottery three times.
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They are app makers, they are podcasters, and they are also H-1B visa holders
— possibly putting them at risk from the president’s immigration policies.
The high-tech industry is now deeply dependent on workers like Mr. Gopal: One in
eight tech workers has an H-1B visa, according to estimates from Goldman Sachs.