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