H1B application fees now cost $100k

[Anonymous]

Really the main abuse was with the consulting agencies like Tata, Cognizant. Direct hires to the large companies were paid competitive wages. I predict the large multinationals will just keep the talent overseas at their Google India subsidiary or whatever.

H1B isnt only tech jobs. University researchers, doctors and physical therapists will lose with this.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

The federal govt also
has h1b's... very interesting....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s terrible. If you were born American, with all the privileges that comes with that lottery win, and you STILL can’t compete with people who grew up in war zones, or with food/water/medicine shortages, and who aced their SATs/MCATs/GREs in a SECOND, non-native language, what does that say about you?!
We shouldn’t artificially be propping up mediocrity, while brilliant foreigners go to the rest of the developed world and bring their skills and intellect elsewhere.

You can always build industry in your own country, given your brilliance.

[Anonymous]

If they’re so brilliant they will pay a one time 100k. It’s not much compared to life time salary for an employee.

[Anonymous]

Fee is every year.

And the tech bros love trump so hopefully they are happy about this!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Really the main abuse was with the consulting agencies like Tata, Cognizant. Direct hires to the large companies were paid competitive wages. I predict the large multinationals will just keep the talent overseas at their Google India subsidiary or whatever.

H1B isnt only tech jobs. University researchers, doctors and physical therapists will lose with this.

They are not on H1B visas. They have a J visa.

[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.

Doctors are not impacted by this new H1B visa order. They come in under the J-1 visa requirements. https://www.ecfmg.org/evsp/evsprfgd.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how it will impact his businesses? Tech will just have their staff work in other countries as it’s cheaper.

This is obviously what they’ll do. In the long run, it will hurt us by moving the tech industry to other countries. Incredibly short sighted.

There are also a lot of other industries that have lots of H1Bs. There are over 10,000 doctors on H1Bs. 1% of the doctors in the US just went poof. You can’t replace a doctor overnight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Doctors are not impacted by this new H1B visa order. They come in under the J-1 visa requirements. https://www.ecfmg.org/evsp/evsprfgd.pdf

Just because they some doctors can get other kinds of visa doesn’t mean all of them actually have them. There are other 10,000 on H1Bs.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5815043/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Doctors are not impacted by this new H1B visa order. They come in under the J-1 visa requirements. https://www.ecfmg.org/evsp/evsprfgd.pdf

Just because they some doctors can get other kinds of visa doesn’t mean all of them actually have them. There are other 10,000 on H1Bs.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5815043/

Also, J1 is generally only for doctors doing residencies and fellowships in the US, ie doctors who haven’t completed all their training yet. A fully trained attending generally isn’t eligible for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wonder how it will impact his businesses? Tech will just have their staff work in other countries as it’s cheaper.

This is obviously what they’ll do. In the long run, it will hurt us by moving the tech industry to other countries. Incredibly short sighted.

There are also a lot of other industries that have lots of H1Bs. There are over 10,000 doctors on H1Bs. 1% of the doctors in the US just went poof. You can’t replace a doctor overnight.

The current EO does not impact current H1B holders. It is for new, going forward applicants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really the main abuse was with the consulting agencies like Tata, Cognizant. Direct hires to the large companies were paid competitive wages. I predict the large multinationals will just keep the talent overseas at their Google India subsidiary or whatever.

H1B isnt only tech jobs. University researchers, doctors and physical therapists will lose with this.

They are not on H1B visas. They have a J visa.

Most are on J's but I've personally approved many on H1B too.

[Anonymous]

Why is it that the same people who think you can’t raise taxes on billionaires because billionaires will just move fail to see that if you increase the price of labor, the billionaires move their labor?

Welcome to multinationals building abroad.

[Anonymous]

I don’t see a problem. If they are that brilliant they can pay.