Kripa Upadhyay Quoted in Times of India Article “The 2027 H-1B season: Revised strategies for sponsoring employers and implications for aspirants”
February, 2026 - Los Angeles, California
By: Lubna Kably, The Times of India
As Kripa Upadhyay, immigration attorney and partner at Buchalter, told TOI, “Employers are treating the FY 2027 H-1B season less like a lottery and more like a capital allocation decision deciding which roles are truly worth six-figure risk exposure. The wage-weighted system effectively forces companies to front-load immigration strategy into compensation planning, long before they know whether a petition will even be selected. Even with the $100,000 fee under litigation, most employers are planning as if it will survive – because the cost of being unprepared is far higher than the cost of compliance.”
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