Costs Top $100,000 and India Rewrites Its Labour Codes, US Companies Are Turning to EOR Hiring for Speed and Certainty

U.S. employers are increasingly turning to Employer of Record (EOR) hiring in India as H-1B sponsorship becomes more costly and harder to plan. Husys, an India-based HR outsourcing and EOR provider operating since 2002, says it can legally onboard pre-vetted candidates in as little as eight hours—addressing complaints that the U.S. visa system has become expensive and unpredictable. The shift comes alongside a turbulent H-1B fee timeline: a $100,000 fee introduced by a September 19, 2025 presidential proclamation for new petitions requiring consular processing was struck down on June 8, 2026, briefly reinstated via a June 12 stay, and remains under appeal in the First Circuit. The article breaks down a cost stack that can exceed $300,000 for one consular-processed H-1B software engineer before adding U.S. salary, and notes green-card pathways add more expense.