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Anonymous
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anyone read WAPO?
Today there is an article about H1B and how USCIS is slowing down applications. And reviewing them for fraud. But look at the comments. There is an 180 degree change in attitude to H1B. Hopefully more people will complain to Democrats and the 1990 Bush Immigration act can be reversed. Especially since so many layoffs in tech. How can anyone say there is a skills shortage? https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/12/19/india-h1b-visas-skilled-workers-trump/ |
Anonymous
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Gift article
https://wapo.st/4s7tygh |
Anonymous
| Lots of American kids want to be doctors. There is no reason to import foreign ones. The reason there are so many Indian doctors compared to Americans has nothing to do with skill or intelligence - it's that it costs roughly $6000 to become a doctor an all of 6 years in India - whereas in the US it is 10+ years and $300,000. |
Anonymous
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Thanks for the gift link. I hate everything Donald Trump stands for and all his lying and thieving. However, this is something I can get behind. I think the abuse of the H1B visa is or should be a bipartisan issue. There is no reason that a kid graduating from undergrad in engineering or computer science should not be hired over someone who obtained a similar situated job through the India H1B hiring mill. Ridiculous. Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, Amazon all fired thousands of tech workers in 2025, I guess now some of these American employees might have a chance of getting one of those jobs that Microsoft, Google, Meta, IBM, Amazon has been holding for H1B worker. |
Anonymous
Exactly. The most an India Medical Graduate pays is $36,000 in one of the private schools. America needs to do better. There are plenty of American kids who are qualified to become doctors, but are discouraged due to the cost and potential school debt. Those school loans become a rope around their necks for years, if not decades. Not worth it. |
Anonymous
The barriers to entry into the medical profession in the US are two high. In most of the rest of the world medicine (and law) is an undergraduate degree. |
Anonymous
Doctors can apply for green card via eb1. H1 is by default for low skill entry level jobs in area no American kids want to work. We came here on J1 visa. There are artists visa. There are temporary visa to work on farms too. It’s not a problem until you abuse policy, lie and gang up to bully non H1 colleagues. |
Anonymous
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The Post didn't include any hard numbers, which makes it difficult to understand the situation. H-1B visas are capped at 85,000 per year (new applications). 65k regular cap + 20K for those with masters degrees or higher. This means there's always more applicants than places, and they grant them via a lottery system.
To put 85,000 in context, the US workforce is around 170 million people. Total H-1B visa holders in the US (when factoring those who got it in prior years) is 600-700k. I believe the claim is some companies are using this as a way to get cheap labor. If so, the new $100k fee for a visa will help deal with that - you have to really want that person to be willing to pay that kind of fee. Before that, the fees were in the $10-20k range when factoring in lawyer fees (the bulk of costs). |
Anonymous
The biggest lie in the U.S. healthcare debate is that we do not have enough American doctors. The truth is simple. We produce them. We just refuse to train them. In 2024 nearly 20 percent of U.S. medical school seniors failed to match into a residency. That is 8,869 qualified graduates who spent years in school, passed their boards, took on massive debt, and still never got the one thing they need to practice medicine. At the same time more than 9,700 foreign trained doctors matched into U.S. residencies in 2025. Many hospitals prefer them because they accept lower pay, longer hours, and have no leverage to complain. You cannot practice medicine in the United States without residency. So if Americans are locked out, someone else will fill the spot. The choke point is not medical school. It is the federally funded residency cap. Congress has not increased these slots fast enough while medical school enrollment has exploded. The result is a rigged bottleneck that leaves American doctors unmatched while taxpayer dollars train replacements from overseas. The Resident Physician Shortage Reduction Act of 2025 would add 14,000 residency slots over seven years. Even that will not undo years of damage, but it is proof that Washington knows the system is broken. Until Congress expands residency slots at the scale required, the United States will keep graduating qualified doctors who never get to practice. Then hospitals will turn around and say there is a physician shortage and use it as an excuse to import more foreign labor. It is not a shortage. It is policy. Citations • AMA, Biggest Match Day Ever, 2025 data • AAMC, Medical School Enrollment Growth vs Residency Bottleneck • Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates, IMG Match Statistics 2025 • Norton Rose Fulbright, Congressional Inquiry into Residency Accreditation and Matching Practices • People Magazine, U.S. Graduate Denied Residency, 2024 |
Anonymous
The 100k fee only applies to new applications, not renewals. So for industries that have already been abusing the system for years (IT and banking, for instance) the new fee won't really impact them except to replace departing workers. And actually the 100k fee benefits them in some ways because previously the only way for an H-1B worker to move to a new job was if that employer was willing to sponsor a new H-1B visa. The visa belongs to the employer, not the worker, and doesn't transfer. Now that new applications are more expensive, this will limit the lateral job market for workers on H-1Bs, which means they will be less likely to try to move for more money. It will further depress wages in these roles. |
Anonymous
| It is confusing why they are stuck. The new rule only applies to petitions filed after September 21, 2025. If they were working in the U.S. and had petitions submitted before that date, they are not as smart as they want us to think! |
Anonymous
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They also need to fix what is happening at our top universities.
My kid is at one of the top 12 engineering schools. Easily 30-35% of the students in the program are foreign students, many from hostile adversarial countries. We know of several incredibly talented kids from our local high school with the same stats as my kid, or better stars, who also applied to that school and were rejected. Before anyone says well the foreign students are smarter and more hard working than the American kids, my kid coming out of northern Virginia public schools is holding their own with these foreign students, with a more difficult program than many of those kids due to a double major, and my kid was not the smartest or most prepared of the top students at their public high school. I am sure there are hundreds or perhaps close to a thousand kids in just the DC area public and private schools who are just as smart, prepared, hard working and capable of those foreign students, who should have been accepted into the top engineering programs in this country. I am very supportive of putting a hard cap, maybe 10%, on the percentage of foreign students allowed into any security critical degree program such as sciences and engineering, at any university that receives a dime of federal aide, grants, pell grants or federal loans We have American kids prepared, brilliant and innovative enough to fill our engineering schools. This needs to be fixed, not just the work visas. |
Anonymous
| I call PPs admission stats BS. 30-35% from foreign countries for undergrad degree? Which university is this? |
Anonymous
Not the university. Engineering. |
Anonymous
| Still calling it BS |