Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas

wtfHN26

Most likely these companies will set up GCCs offshore. Moving the jobs abroad. Whatever tax and living + lifestyle expenses that USA economy was making from H1B's will be gone. Good for the rest of the world.

hn_submit

Wasn't this struck down because by law the Federal Government can only charge the cost of producing a visa? The amount cannot be arbitrary in any way. Or has the Trump Administration found a workaround for this?

throwa356262

All Canada needs to do to become the center of innovation now is to... become 10°C warmer.

FatherOfCurses

In other words, companies who rely on H1B visas are not donating enough to Trump 2028 or the Republican party.

bellowsgulch

I vote for Democrats. Sad they didn't step up for American tech workers though, and the guy shitting himself did.

bubblethink

This is a nice trick. Since SCOTUS barred universal injunctions, the government can implement whatever batshit ideology they want until the case makes its way through the judicial system. Often that is a year or two. And even if it is eventually vacated, like the tariffs or the previous iteration of this fee, the damage is already done, as you cannot go back in time.

mexicojalisco

Good. What’s happening now in the corporate world (and other places) is very distasteful. Americans shouldn’t have to compete against the whole world to get a job in the USA

runicelf

When you can’t beat illegal migration, just make legal migration more difficult, works like a charm every time.