H1B application fees now cost $100k

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Well…the billionaire would have to renounce their citizenship because the US taxes you no matter where you live. Some may do that, but it’s a massive step.

Folks…even if the H1 was free, it’s always been much cheaper to keep labor in their own country and pay significantly lower wages. What this does is discourages people here for college to take their skills back home because they can’t get a job on graduation.

For doctors…something is wrong with our supply chain. All the med schools are 100% filled with mainly Americans yet I guess we don’t have enough doctors….or is it we don’t have enough doctors in certain specialties and too many in others?

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

Doesn't $100K fee apply to H1B renewal too?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

This isn't increasing the price of labor. It's equalizing the cheap the labor that greedy corporations have been using. It's not good for any worker, from the ones it exploits to the ones it marginalizes.

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Anonymous wrote:

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.

That’s not what the proclamation says. It specifically says that H1Bs that haven’t paid the fee cannot enter the US starting today. If you are already here, then I suppose you can stay until you renew but you cannot leave the country or you won’t be let back in.

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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.

Js are for residents and fellows only.

[Anonymous]

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.

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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.

Given your contempt for the HIB program, I take it you voluntarily left the US at some point and returned to your country of origin thereby freeing up a job for an American citizen?

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Rare W from Trump.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

Well…the billionaire would have to renounce their citizenship because the US taxes you no matter where you live. Some may do that, but it’s a massive step.

Folks…even if the H1 was free, it’s always been much cheaper to keep labor in their own country and pay significantly lower wages. What this does is discourages people here for college to take their skills back home because they can’t get a job on graduation.

For doctors…something is wrong with our supply chain. All the med schools are 100% filled with mainly Americans yet I guess we don’t have enough doctors….or is it we don’t have enough doctors in certain specialties and too many in others?

According to my research, foreign physicians fill the following gaps:

1) Primary care shortages: Foreign physicians are 5-9 times more likely than U.S. graduates to enter primary care, addressing the projected deficit of over 55,000 primary care doctors by 2033, which U.S. citizens often avoid due to lower pay and demanding workloads.

2) Rural and underserved community gaps: Foreign doctors s are more inclined to practice in rural or Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs), where over 20 million Americans live with limited access; U.S. doctors typically prefer urban settings.

3) Unfilled residency slots in critical specialties: International medical graduates fill over 6,600 residency positions annually (highest on record in 2025), particularly in internal medicine and hospital-based roles like inpatient care and emergency rooms, where U.S. applicants do not match all available spots.

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Ashburn real estate is getting ready to tank. Does this impact current H1B visa holders?