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All it'll do is replace competent workers who don't have $100k to spare, with incompetent workers who have the money.
All it'll do is replace competent workers who don't have $100k to spare, with incompetent workers who have the money.
The fees are paid by employers and not workers.
Like Americans paying Tariff fees out of their wallets due to price hikes.
Doesn’t this just mean less talent? Companies would hire locally if equal level talent was available. I doubt it’s really about saving money when these jobs earn a lot of revenue per employee. Adding this fee means companies may just not find anyone worth hiring. It would make more sense to require H1B salary to be equal to the highest paid local employee of the same role at that company than to just throw an arbitra…
Research universities could probably use O-1, as the requirements for O-1A are lower than the bar for getting a tenure-track position. So they would effectively pay $10k to a lawyer rather than $100k to the government.
All it'll do is replace competent workers who don't have $100k to spare, with incompetent workers who have the money.
The fees are paid by employers and not workers.
Now Trump needs to go after all the "founders" scamming the US through their O-1 visa. That shit needs to end yesterday.
$100k is a big pizzo (protection fee)!
[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/ted-cruz-...
> “That’s right outta ‘Goodfellas,’ that’s right out of a mafioso going into a bar saying, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it,’” Cruz said, using the iconic New York accent associated with the Mafia.