$100K per person, or per company? Does Tata just pay $100K once?
per application, so per person
Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
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Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
#52The way I see it is that US companies cannot simultaneously compete with foreign workers who are as good or better than US workers but are willing to work harder for less money, and also retain a high QoL for US workers. If US companies want to compete on actual merit and cost, they have to let US QoL take a hit. If they want to retain US QoL, they can't compete.
Something's gotta give, and the endless dancing with partial offshoring and H1Bs is band-aiding over two options: a bloodbath for American workers where competing for their jobs is actually opened up to the globe, or a massive, nationalist set of labor protections to stop other countries from bidding on work asked for by the US markets. Making H1Bs more costly is a little stronger than a Band-Aids, but not by much.
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#53So now just outsource to those countries instead??
This is good news for China: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3318178/tale...
SCMP is owned by Alibaba, which is subject to the purview of the Chinese Central Government [1].
[1]: https://www.cecc.gov/agencies-responsible-for-censorship-in-...
Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
#54I think this is great news for countries like Canada and UK.
Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
#55With how inconsistent and on and off this administration has been I expect this will probably never happen, or there will be exemptions to this for every company that this was most abused for and just sucks up to the president.
Until anything actually happens there's no reason to take this president at his word.
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#56$100K per person, or per company? Does Tata just pay $100K once?
The answer to your question is in the first sentence of the article
Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
#57$100k filing fee cannot be legally viable. But I support the direction in general. There is virtually no gate control, causing the visa category to be flooded by fraudulent applications (including unqualified hires, duplicate lottery shots). H1B visas are initially designed for economic efficiency, so using monetary means to control it is justifiable.
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#58Mafia behavior continues… (not my observation, but the Texas senator’s Ted Cruz[1]). $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…
It does go to the government and not to Trump's personal wallet (like the memecoins and lavish gift), it's just a tax that's just not being called a tax, and frankly it's a good idea. The current abuse of H1B doesn't work out positively for anyone but the companies making a boatload of money on exploiting people.
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#59Great News! Now Trump needs to go after all the "founders" scamming the US through their O-1 visa. That shit needs to end yesterday.
This is the next grift target into the US.
Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says
#60Great News! Now Trump needs to go after all the "founders" scamming the US through their O-1 visa. That shit needs to end yesterday.
What's the scam?
It was advertised on HN last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40082864
https://extraordinaryaliens.substack.com/p/o1-visa-hacks-for...