$100k fee for h1-b visas coming

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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/

Oh god. I didn’t think about that. Ugh

First they make it hard for U.S. citizens to pay for med school. Now they take away for foreign doctors who fill the gap. I guess we’ll be left with nothing. MAHA!

Again, a tacit confession that H1Bs are mainly used to hire cheap labor.

For a doctor with hard-to-find skills, a $100,000 fee is nothing.

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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.

If an additional $100,000 makes a worker "not worth the cost," then he must not have exceptional skills that are impossible to find locally. This fee won't prevent employers from hiring workers with truly rare skills.

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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?

Trump should push for this instead of money from universities. Nursing schools as well.

We need doctors and they are usually on J visas. Rarely are they on H1B visas.

+1

There is a lot of misinformation in this thread.

Yes, too many people have no clue what visa is for what.
I am not sure what they are outraged about unless they know they are scammers and here on H1B visas. J1 visas for doctors are now a priority; H1B visas are, for the most part, for scammers. Rare are the real H1B workers. Just look at the panic in India; they know they are not skilled and that they will be going home—enough of abusing the system.

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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.

Offshoring has been going on for decades. Companies have already offshored what they can. The H1Bs were being used to fill the positions that could not be offshored easily with cheap labor.

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Anonymous wrote:What was the fee before this?

Around USD 200.

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H1B will work cheaper than an American so the 100k evens the playing field slightly. They would have paid that 100k in a signing bonus to an American anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:H1B will work cheaper than an American so the 100k evens the playing field slightly. They would have paid that 100k in a signing bonus to an American anyway.

Or people who very much want to live in the U.S. will pay an employer to get the visa for them. It’s a new grift.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you know how much work and how hard med school is PP? You're joking right? IT is like 1000% easier than med school which requires a residency and often a specialty post undergrad to get through? You know how long it take to become an MD??

Does it take as much time in Europe or Canada to become a doctor as it does in the USA? If not, why does the USA require so many hoops?

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Anonymous wrote:What was the fee before this?

The current cost is $1,700 and up to $4,500 if expedited. Thus is peanuts. The new $100,000 is in addition to the current $1,700. It is only for new H1B applicants and not current holders of the visa.

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This seems like a good sensible move that should’ve been done a long time ago - and I don’t like anything this administration does (except maybe food policy).

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Anonymous wrote:A handful of large consulting companies, who specialize in outsourcing, are unhappy with this fee. Be prepared for a tidal wave of fearmongering from their minions.

Accenture and Deloitte?

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Anonymous wrote:H1B will work cheaper than an American so the 100k evens the playing field slightly. They would have paid that 100k in a signing bonus to an American anyway.

Or people who very much want to live in the U.S. will pay an employer to get the visa for them. It’s a new grift.

Very few H1Bs could afford the 100k fee without it being a renewal or something like that. Even American entry level people would struggle to get 100k together for a visa that could be revoked with a random layoff or termination. It would not make sense to spend 100k on a visa that could be revoked so easily when you could spend 250k € for a European visa that isnt tied to employment and is therefore more durable (eg Greece).

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Anonymous wrote:What was the fee before this?

The current cost is $1,700 and up to $4,500 if expedited. Thus is peanuts. The new $100,000 is in addition to the current $1,700. It is only for new H1B applicants and not current holders of the visa.

European countries with desirable passports are monetizing their immigration system. Meanwhile we are giving it away for free. The left constantly asks why we can't be more like Europe. In this circumstance, I think they are right. We should restrict access and sell it to wealthy buyers, and then use that money to improve our country.

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So, are they just going to apply for green cards directly? My experience has been that H-1b tend to be relatively unskilled, they hire them then develop skills. Like java beans or CI/CD and other proprietary or trivial open source "software skills". Then they apply for green cards after working forty hours a week for three, six or nine years. Oh, but you don't have the skills. At least they will need to do a market search and prove that there are no one available or skilled, prior to doing on the job training.