Times of India: CanAm’s Piyush Gupta on Securing US Career Opportunities Amid Tightening Visa Norms

In a recent op-ed for The Times of India, CanAm's Piyush Gupta, Vice President, India and Middle East, examines why a growing number of Indian students and professionals are turning to the EB-5 program as US work visa pathways grow more uncertain.

The piece traces the strain on the traditional OPT to H-1B to Green Card pipeline, noting that employer caution and the H-1B lottery have made that route harder to count on. Gupta points to USCIS data showing EB-5 applications from Indian citizens nearly doubled year over year, rising from 879 in FY2024 to 1,903 in FY2025, the sharpest increase on record. He walks through the program's qualifying investment thresholds ($1.05 million standard, $800,000 for rural or high unemployment set-aside projects) and highlights concurrent filing as a key post-2022 reform, letting students obtain work authorization and travel documents while their EB-5 petition is still pending. Gupta closes by urging prospective investors to vet regional centers carefully, looking for a verifiable track record of completed projects, approved petitions, and capital actually repaid.

At CanAm, we've seen firsthand how concurrent filing has changed the calculus for students and their families. The ability to secure an EAD and advance parole while a petition is pending gives investors a stability that the traditional employment-sponsored route simply can't match right now.

Read the full op-ed here.

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