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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 trgn »

jrockway wrote: post #667
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…

Are H1B visas undercutting wages significantly? I haven't really looked since the zero interest rates era, but back then H1Bs were getting paid the same as everyone else. I got the impression that companies would like to hire citizens (for their own convenience), but there were more jobs than people. The economy kind of sucks right now but it ain't H1B visa holders that are the problem.

you're not applying for .net analyst at midwest regional bank corp.

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

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Post by laughing_man »

I keep hearing how reduction of the H-1(b) cap will keep singular talent from coming to the US. If you're genuinely hiring the best in the world for a critical role in a billion dollar project, $100k is a rounding error.

Judging from the reaction, it's almost like what the program really gets used for is to replace domestic workers with desperate, barely-qualified foreigners.

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

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Post by technocrat8080 »

fooey wrote: post #668
technocrat8080 wrote: post #653

How are startups supposed to afford this? How are talented H-1B workers supposed to start companies? And no, the answer is not always an O-1. I know plenty of foreign founders contributing meaningfully to the US economy, now slapped with a 100k fee.

they're not, it's a moat

Great, let's punish early stage startups instead of rewarding the successful ones.

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

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Post by LPisGood »

y-curious wrote: post #293
b_e_n_t_o_n wrote: post #32

> H-1B visas are already costly to obtain, ranging from about $1,700 to $4,500 oof, that's a big price increase.

My one concern is that the salary discrepancy minus the $100k might still be worth it for FAANG specifically.

Why is that a concern?

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

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Post by Tiktaalik »

checker659 wrote: post #54

I think this is great news for countries like Canada and UK.

Seriously as someone with no interest in moving to the USA this is fantastic news.

Open up studios in British Columbia and hire the relatively cheaper labour. It's on the same time zone as Silicon Valley. It's a no brainer.

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

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Post by bmitc »

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…

> This is actually smart.

Do you personally know any H-1B visa holders? I can only assume that by your comment that you do not. The ones who play by the system have their entire livelihood and home held over their head while under an H-1B visa.

Punish the companies and staffing firms abusing the H-1B visas instead of creating a blanket, anti-immigration policy that will only bolster those abusing the H1-B visa, because those already abusing are the ones who have the funds to pay this fee. Companies who do things legitimately will not be able to easily absorb this fee.

I will lose friends and colleagues because of this imposed fee. This will kick out all the good people we actually want working in this country. This will further reduce good people wanting to come to this country.

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Post by nrmitchi »

leakycap wrote: post #90
frogblast wrote: post #80

IMO the problem is that H1B employees are stuck at the employer for the duration of their green card process, and so end up both paid lower and unable to escape abuse. I think a very high application fee is actually part of a good solution, but is useless by itself. A flawed proposal: * Dispense with the 'need to search for a qualified American' which just complicates the process without achieving the stated goal, an…

No company would ever sponsor someone if the last bullet is part of the deal. You're just killing the visa program another way with that wishlist item alone.

This is not true at all. Employers will still sponsor talent that they need.

If you are sponsoring an employee for a visa and "it's a great thing they can't quit, it's the main thing that's keeping them here!", then you are abusing the system and should be excluded anyways.

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

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Post by petesergeant »

comp_throw7 wrote: post #681
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…

The trivial way to fix that issue would've been to ORDER BY offered_salary DESC LIMIT $h1b_cap, not this.

That moves all H1Bs to software though, which I’m not sure is right.
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