Elon Musk, Satya Nadella, Sundar Pichai, other H-1B beneficiaries silent on new rules

The chaos and confusion of the new H-1B rules have elicited no response from techies in Silicon Valley who were beneficiaries of this visa system. Elon Musk, Google’s Sundar Pichai, and Microsoft’s Satya Nadella, who came to the US as H-1B talent, have been suspiciously quiet about the $100,000 fee for new petitions announced by the Donald Trump administration on Saturday.

Musk, founder and CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and owner of social media platform X, was ready to go to war as recently as December on the H-1B issue. “The reason I’m in America…