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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

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Post by softwaredoug »

bhouston wrote: post #531

This is actually smart. Many H1B visas are used to undermine fair labor wages for already local talent. We should ensure that H1B visas are for actual unique talent and not just to undercut local wages. H1B is ripe with abuse - this article by Bloomberg says that half of all H1-B visas are used by Indian staffing firms that pay significantly lower than the US laborers they are replacing: - https://www.bloomberg.com/g…

OTOH many H1Bs come with the intent of moving to the US and permanent residence eventually. Which makes our workforce stronger.

Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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Post by ranger_danger »

tomrod wrote: post #524

What a shame. We face a mounting demographic crisis from low birth rates already, mostly from economic pressures and lack of personal decisions in healthcare for women. So many wrong directions.

But H-1Bs are for specialized workers... somehow I don't think that is a meaningful contributor to overall low birth rates, but I could be wrong.

Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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Post by SpicyLemonZest »

paxys wrote: post #545
rideontime wrote: post #525

Bit ridiculous that this article leaves as a footnote that this rule change is illegal and likely to be struck down by the first lawsuit.

The trump administration has not complied with any unfavorable court ruling about immigration why would they care about this one?

They've complied with a number of unfavorable court rulings about immigration, but precisely because that's what they're supposed to do it goes much less viral.

Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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Post by lisbbb »

aylmao wrote: post #102

The pendulum swung really hard back to in-person office work a couple years ago. I wonder if this will swing it back and make more positions remote-friendly.

I initially loved remote work and was doing 2/5ths of my week remove before 2020. Once I became fully remote for years, the horror sunk in--it's career suicide.

Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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Post by wonderwonder »

Lets Go!!! Raised the minimum salary to $150k. The 100k application fee is per person per year.

Meaning now companies can either hire an American new grad for 100k a year or pay 250k a year to import someone. It also still allows companies to bring over highly skilled foreign workers for which there are no American equivalents.

Really happy with the approach and I think it will be a massive boon for US tech and knowledge workers

Re: Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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Post by rayiner »

paxys wrote: post #545
rideontime wrote: post #525

Bit ridiculous that this article leaves as a footnote that this rule change is illegal and likely to be struck down by the first lawsuit.

The trump administration has not complied with any unfavorable court ruling about immigration why would they care about this one?

The one ruling they arguably didn’t comply with was overturned by the Supreme Court, who held the district court didn’t even have jurisdiction in the first place.

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Post by lisbbb »

selimthegrim wrote: post #356
whatever1 wrote: post #107

So, essentially, startups will never be able to hire fresh graduate students again (masters/phd). This means that the best and brightest individuals who have made it to the top US institutions after winning numerous rounds of global talent filtering will be deported.

I like how the assumption here is that there are no domestic graduate students anymore.

In 1996 I was at a top US university getting a master's and was the only white dude in most of the classes. There was a probability class that could have been taught in Mandarin if it hadn't been for me.

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Post by softwaredoug »

LPisGood wrote: post #542
rideontime wrote: post #525

Bit ridiculous that this article leaves as a footnote that this rule change is illegal and likely to be struck down by the first lawsuit.

I think it is kind of a footnote. Many things this administration has done are illegal and struck down by the first lawsuit but later let stand by a friendly Supreme Court.

That's true on administrative state issues (Trump being allowed to fire people in the exec. branch). It's not clear this is a 100% guarantee for everything beyond that. (Maybe a 65% guarantee).

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Post by rogerrogerr »

k33n wrote: post #549
LPisGood wrote: post #513

I think this is an upfront cost, not an annual cost.

It is an annual cost. This will dramatically shake up the US tech industry. I expect to see engineering budgets increase, and less Americans struggling to get interviews and ultimately jobs at companies HQ'ed here. The originally stated purpose of the H1-B program was to import top-tier elite talent but anyone who watched it evolve saw that it became terribly exploitative. I've watched as companies that I've worked f…

I hope this is the outcome. Can anyone convince me that these companies won’t just hire more Indians in India (or outsource to Indian companies)?
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