H-1B overhaul pressures outsourcing firms and their US clients

The Trump administration’s overhaul of the H-1B visa program for highly skilled foreign tech workers will pressure the business model of companies that make low-cost tech workers from India and elsewhere available in the U.S.

The visas are especially prized by technology firms and information-technology departments at a range of corporations.

The restrictions, announced Tuesday, require U.S. employers to pay H-1B workers higher wages, narrow the types of credentials needed for foreign job applicants to qualify and shorten the length of visas for certain contract workers.