H1B application fees now cost $100k

[Anonymous]

Does 100k guarantee your h1b application is accepted? If yes, it may not be such a bad idea. Right now there are way more applications than available h1b visas so the lucky winners are chosen randomly by lottery. Not the most efficient way to allocate these visas. At least some of them should go to the highest bidder.

[Anonymous]

Given they claim he can waive it, this is blatantly another request for bribes. Slip someone 50k in a paper bag or buy Trump's crypto and you get your company waiver.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh silly Donny-boy. Companies are not going to hire Americans do these jobs. They will just send the jobs overseas/hire remote workers. It's going to be worse for the economy because that's hundreds of thousands of people who won't be spending money in the U.S., they'll be spending their money in India and China. It's a really, really dumb thing to do without any thought.

I don't think it is dumb b/c it will solve for the horrible crisis of migration which is traumatizing. a lot of people go away for their education and the move back home- now people in non war torn but developing countries will be able to do that. It's a good thing if people all over the world can have good, stable well paying employment like the above poster in Ivory Coast.

is it good for american hegemony??? probably not but that is also a good thing, super powers have done a lot of harm, it would be better if other countries were able to be independent of the US and its whims. we have done a lot of harm in developing countries- we basically created and funded islamo-fascism and the only thing that can put that genie back in the bottle is having a wealthy, stable developed society with plenty of jobs and leisure, no-one will support boko haram if the majority of people are just trying to go to the movies or eat ice cream on the beach. I am from a developing country that has been pushed to the right by the US (not Iran) and I KNOW that is how it would work, wealthy people don't care about the mullahs, its the hopeless who are afraid. same with the hindu crazies - they get the most power from the working poor, the educated wealthy class has always been less susceptible to religious fanaticism. truth is America needs to get poorer and spread the wealth, and honestly its got plenty of leeway to do it. The poor living standard of Americans is due to inefficient government spending, not lack of wealth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Support this! Too many abuses in the H1B process. US citizens new college/master graduates can't get a job while H1B foreigners got jobs, not becasue they are better (they are NOT), but becasue those people are willing to accept very low salaries.

You can accept a lower paying job... go for it.

The hiring manager won’t interview me. I need to be from his village.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with very smart H1Bs and not-so-smart H1Bs too. With this decision, we will try to bring jobs back to Americans but will also lose talent. H1Bs pay taxes here at the same rate as the rest of us. We will lose that money.
Will this move make companies outsource projects to offshore locations? If that happens, we will lose money, talent and it won't solve the root problem.
Time will tell.

There is enough talent here. These companies already have plenty in their home countries so they use coming here as an incentive vs. need. They will just take the jobs to other countries. They like the H1B as the tech and other companies can pay them much less.

That maybe true for the tech industry but in research and academia the best and brightest are often foreign born. Wonder if Princeton would have ponied up the new fee to bring Einstein to America in the 1930’s?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:H1B guy will be thrilled!

next we will terminate the Optional Practical Training (OPT) corporate welfare program.

The troubling fact is that the OPT program was created entirely through regulation with no authorization from Congress whatsoever. It has been going on for so long, that many people assume that Congress authorized OPT when in fact, Congress has explicitly changed the law to prohibit it.

Here is a history of how OPT came about. In reading this history, keep in mind that the regulations described here employ the euphemism "practical training" to refer to work.

In 2007, Microsoft concocted a scheme to use OPT as a means to circumvent the H-1B quotas. Microsoft's plan was to extend the duration of OPT from a year to 29-months, so that the duration would be sufficient to serve as a guestworker program, rather than just an internship-type program. Microsoft proposed this scheme to the Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff at a dinner party at the home of the owner of the Washington Nationals baseball team. (See pp. 229-230 in the book Sold Out.) From there, DHS worked in absolute secrecy with industry lobbyists to craft regulations implementing Microsoft's plan.

In a classic example of Washington cronyism, the first notice that DHS was even considering such regulations came when they were promulgated as a fait accompli, without notice and comment, on April 8, 2008 (73 Fed. Reg. 18,944). These regulations made three major expansions to OPT. First, they allowed aliens to remain in student visa status while they were unemployed so they could look for work. Second, they allowed aliens working under OPT to remain in student visa status from the time an H-1B petition was filed on their behalf until a final decision was made on the petition or the start date. This adds a maximum of 6 months to the OPT duration. Finally, they authorized a 17-month work period for aliens with degrees in fields DHS designates at Science/Technology/Engineering/Mathematics (STEM). This gave a maximum OPT duration of 35 months.

The OPT program has been the subject of continuous litigation since then where, after nearly a decade, the federal courts have been unable to come to a decision on whether it is lawful. However in 2015, the D.C. District Court held that the 2008 OPT regulations had been promulgated unlawfully without notice and comment. In response to this opinion, DHS promulgated new regulations that did the same as the old regulations except that they expanded the STEM work period from 17 months to 24 months, giving a maximum OPT work period of 42 months (24+12+6).

OPT is an example of the administrative state run amok. Instead of law coming from Congress, we have law coming from bureaucrats working hand-in-hand with lobbyists. OPT also illustrates the slippery-slope problem of regulation. Work on student visas started innocently as an integral part of a course of study to give foreign students an experience not available in their home country, but eventually was transformed into a full-blown guestworker program whose stated purpose is to provide labor to American business.

https://cis.org/Report/History-Optional-Practical-Training-Guestworker-Program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fantastic. I was once on H1B visa but got laid off and replaced by another H1B from Indian. Indian H1B visa holders have gotten so f**g arrogant because they simply dominate the market. Americans are qualified to do 100% of the jobs held by H1B visa holders.

do not confuse the DCUM community with facts.

DCUM loves loves loves their H1Bs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t know anything about the tech industry but I’m worried that we will lose a lot of good doctors. Good specialists are hard to find and getting an appointment with one takes a while. Adding a $100,000 a year fee means that many hospitals will have to let them go. And who will they be replaced with? It’s not like there is a line of unemployed specialists waiting to take the job. And medicine is based on expertise and some doctors are better than others. At the very least an exception should be made for doctors and ppl in research positions.

This. So many doctors are from other countries.

[Anonymous]

Most of the H1/J1 doctors work in the lower paid specialities and rural areas that many American MDs don’t want if they have a choice. Well, looks like they’ll have to buckle up now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have worked with very smart H1Bs and not-so-smart H1Bs too. With this decision, we will try to bring jobs back to Americans but will also lose talent. H1Bs pay taxes here at the same rate as the rest of us. We will lose that money.
Will this move make companies outsource projects to offshore locations? If that happens, we will lose money, talent and it won't solve the root problem.
Time will tell.

There is enough talent here. These companies already have plenty in their home countries so they use coming here as an incentive vs. need. They will just take the jobs to other countries. They like the H1B as the tech and other companies can pay them much less.

That maybe true for the tech industry but in research and academia the best and brightest are often foreign born. Wonder if Princeton would have ponied up the new fee to bring Einstein to America in the 1930’s?

They can go for J visa.

H1B is supposedly for entry level, which is fine, but not when new grads can’t find jobs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the H1/J1 doctors work in the lower paid specialities and rural areas that many American MDs don’t want if they have a choice. Well, looks like they’ll have to buckle up now.

Rural Americans will just have to follow RFKs advice then!

[Anonymous]

H1B TACO already starting.
Doctors to be exempted from $100,000 fee.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Support this! Too many abuses in the H1B process. US citizens new college/master graduates can't get a job while H1B foreigners got jobs, not becasue they are better (they are NOT), but becasue those people are willing to accept very low salaries.

You can accept a lower paying job... go for it.

The hiring manager won’t interview me. I need to be from his village.

So, no.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:H1B TACO already starting.
Doctors to be exempted from $100,000 fee.

source?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:H1B TACO already starting.
Doctors to be exempted from $100,000 fee.

source?

Something called the Internet.