$100k fee for h1-b visas coming

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it can be underestimated how much this is going to devastate the south Asian communities in places like Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and the Bay Area.

H1B has been a pathway to citizenship using loopholes for over 30 years--many of these areas you mention have towns that are over 80% Indian as a result, these citizens are not going anywhere.

The town i grew up in became majority Indian in a matter of 10 to 15 years since the late 90s.

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Anonymous wrote:I actually support this one. The program has been abused to put American grads out of jobs and undercut labor. If you’re going to outsource, outsource. You don’t need to import your entire workforce here and hold them hostage on visas only you control.

Outsourcing means we don't get the income tax revenue.

I'm fine with that. All the h-1b end up in red zone real estate areas which means basically they degrade services, because they don't build more pools, schools, roads or houses, and that isn't cool. We don't want their tax money; we want spaces in our schools. Great example is the whole Harvard rat race. Only so many spots, if they go to international students, some domestic student doesn't get to go. There are many things like this. As much as they say more the merrier, it just isn't the case. Maybe in some instances, but mostly not.

I'm totally fine with corporations taking an h-1b job and offshoring it. They threaten to do so, but here is the thing. When these people work in their Native countries they won't be nearly as motivated. The companies have to work around local labor laws and practices. Like government Holidays, there are hundreds of Hindu Holidays. The workers in many cases can easily by poached. They won't be able to leverage an English-speaking workforce to train them and so on. They won't be willing to trade lower wages for a "green card" when there is no green card to be had. The foreigners aren't going to pay to go to school here in the US just to go home and work. Not to mention infrastructure. Many of the schools in India don't even really have computers or networks. They can't afford to subsidize hardware like workers do in the US, they aren't going to show up with Mac Book Pros ready to fill out your ten-page work history and Obamacare worksheet.

It changes the calculation very much working with Natives.

What does red zone real estate area mean?

Companies sometimes color-code maps when they do site-selection modeling — green/yellow/red — where “red” = the highest cost / highest density tier. That color coding is purely internal and varies from company to company; there’s no universal “red zone real estate” statute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it can be underestimated how much this is going to devastate the south Asian communities in places like Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and the Bay Area.

These communities didn't exist 10, 20 years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it can be underestimated how much this is going to devastate the south Asian communities in places like Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and the Bay Area.

There are still plenty of people that will be here. Many are citizens, others are on current visas. But yes, there will fewer fresh arrivals. It might devastate the marriage mart for the mammas who were hoping for someone less assimilated for their boys but hard to imagine how it goes much farther than that.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

Do you think this will boost jobs?

Isn't this the way his present wife got into the country?

I would bet that the $100,000 will go directly into Trump's pocket.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

Do you think this will boost jobs?

Isn't this the way his present wife got into the country?

I would bet that the $100,000 will go directly into Trump's pocket.

The order is straight up, just read see if there is anything that you actually disagree with in the order itself:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it can be underestimated how much this is going to devastate the south Asian communities in places like Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and the Bay Area.

These communities didn't exist 10, 20 years ago.

Yes they did! I went in state to a VA college in the late 90’s and there was a large south Asian population from NOVA.

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I work for a small company focused on international policy issues. We have been so lucky with some talented students/recent grads working on school based visas and have hired them on through the H1B lottery. It's important for us to have different (non-American) points of view in our work, and these people are so freaking smart. It's going to be a blow to us.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

Do you think this will boost jobs?

Isn't this the way his present wife got into the country?

I would bet that the $100,000 will go directly into Trump's pocket.

The order is straight up, just read see if there is anything that you actually disagree with in the order itself:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/09/restriction-on-entry-of-certain-nonimmigrant-workers/

I hope it actually gets implemented. I'm sure it will be challenged.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

Do you think this will boost jobs?

No, just more offshoring.

I've worked in the tech industry since 1998. More and more jobs are going offshore. This will just push even more.

Companies are willing to accept 60% efficiency and accuracy for 30% of the pay.

Funny we can't WFH, but they can work from India. I'm all for improving remote work capabilities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You thought health care was bad already? Gone, 10,000 doctors. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5815043/

26% of doctors practicing in the United States are foreign-born. Why don’t US medical schools open up more spots so that more Americans can become doctors?

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

Do you think this will boost jobs?

No, just more offshoring.

I've worked in the tech industry since 1998. More and more jobs are going offshore. This will just push even more.

Companies are willing to accept 60% efficiency and accuracy for 30% of the pay.

Best would be a 100% tax on offshoring and H1-B’s. It should be difficult and painful to do either.

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Anonymous wrote:You thought health care was bad already? Gone, 10,000 doctors. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5815043/

26% of doctors practicing in the United States are foreign-born. Why don’t US medical schools open up more spots so that more Americans can become doctors?

People don't get that it takes certain people to have ability to be and want to be a Dr. it's not an easy path and it actually takes some brainpower or at least studying. People here don't go into engineering or IT or science. They go into sales marketing or work in customer service. It's not other H1Bs taking jobs away from American grads. It's that no American grads are around to hire!

I hire every single American tech talent I can but 80% are foreign born that's just a fact. Limiting H1B only makes it so the talent pool diminishes. It's a blow to this country ultimately.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You thought health care was bad already? Gone, 10,000 doctors. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5815043/

26% of doctors practicing in the United States are foreign-born. Why don’t US medical schools open up more spots so that more Americans can become doctors?

People don't get that it takes certain people to have ability to be and want to be a Dr. it's not an easy path and it actually takes some brainpower or at least studying. People here don't go into engineering or IT or science. They go into sales marketing or work in customer service. It's not other H1Bs taking jobs away from American grads. It's that no American grads are around to hire!

I hire every single American tech talent I can but 80% are foreign born that's just a fact. Limiting H1B only makes it so the talent pool diminishes. It's a blow to this country ultimately.

Americans are naturally intellectually deficient compared to others.

You don't need to major in engineering or a science major or "IT" to apply to and succeed in medical school.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t think it can be underestimated how much this is going to devastate the south Asian communities in places like Northern Virginia, New Jersey, and the Bay Area.

*Overestimated

Womp womp