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The Trump administration said on Friday it would ask companies to pay $100,000 per year for H-1B worker visas, prompting some big tech companies to warn visa holders to stay in the U.S. or quickly return.
The change could deal a big blow to the technology sector that relies heavily on skilled workers from India and China.
Since taking office in January, Trump has kicked off a wide-ranging immigration crackdown, including moves to limit some forms of legal immigration. The step to reshape the H-1B visa program represents his administration’s most high-profile effort yet to rework temporary employment visas.
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It’s another extortion trick. The administration has a way to waive the fee. He’s going to use it to get tech to bend the knee.
Oh wait, it’s per year? Jesus. That’s such a naked shakedown.
Not the worst idea, maybe even a good idea, going to be executed horribly, for all the wrong reasons, and will only serve the purpose of lining the pockets of some people and forcing allegiance to the regime.
The US will lose its programming edge over the rest of the world but yeah the HB1 visa program was designed to exploit people. This won’t fix it though.
The proper thing to do would be to fix the program to force median or above wage pay and limit visas for saturated positions.
As an unemployed American programmer I am insulted. This idea that the talent doesn’t exist here has been a lie by corporations to keep IT wages lower.
Fr. America puts a lot of talented students each year and is hugely tech talented. If s company can’t find someone for a tech job it’s cuz they arent paying a fair wage or have their head so far up their ass almost no real candidate would match their requirements
its the fair wage, that company dont want to pay to citizens.
Exactly so fuck em
Exactly so fuck em
Louisiana?
As is typical for Trump. Even if he identifies a problem correctly he’s incapable of coming up with a good solution.
The large companies will offshore the work, the smaller companies that can’t afford to “buy” an exception, will just close down.
A lot of these visas are for medical staff ; they can’t just be replaced by some guy who did a 6 week coding camp.
I saw somewhere that the younger generation that just graduated is having a tough time finding IT jobs.
I just hope companies don’t just keep it down-sized and continue to not hire junior IT workers
i heard cs majors had a tough time for like 10+years, biotech is the same, because these companies that do research also have H1B VISA as part of “do you need it in the applications” and then theres the side where they also preferentially hire woman too, as it shows they hold the majority of bio major in the states, and are more succesful in bio-health and research than thier male counterparts. I also witness labs in my university were mostly women too, minus the fact that one of the managers was pervy and only liked women.
And what’s the penalty for outsourcing to an Indian contracting firm instead? Or opening an office there?
Trump admin doesn’t care about jobs for American workers, they just don’t want brown people in America, so that’s probably fine with them.
There is a 50% tariff on India currently, because of their import of russian crude oil. Does it also apply to software exports of India?
if you’re asking genuinely - no - software does not have a bill of lading.
Unless I missed it it’s 100k fee once a year for 3 years, not 100k per visa. What a devastating blow to tech. About the same impact as me paying a 1$ service fee on something.
Per person
I’m not seeing anything in the article to suggest that, just the opposite.
all the big companies are on board" with $100,000 a year for H-1B visas
companies would have to pay the same amount for each applicant for six years, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said.
EDIT:
Visas tied to one company, such as these H1B visas, should not exist. That is the only reason this does not bother me.
they abused it so much for biotech too. im not surprised most of the hires, or experts come from where tech source thier employees.
if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines, in the Secretary’s discretion, that the hiring of such aliens to be employed as H-1B specialty occupation workers is in the national interest and does not pose a threat to the security or welfare of the United States. whitehouse.gov
So companies need to bribe/lobby the secretary of homeland security?
This was already in the legislation btw.
Not a Trump fan. But this actually seems like a good idea to me. The H1B program is widely abused for companies to hire foreign technical workers rather than Americans. They do this because it is often cheaper. I would love to see it become more expensive.
I think a better way to do it would be to simply say H1B workers are no longer tied to any specific company, and must be paid at least call it $85,000/year. Plus the $100k fee to create the position. That way the program is restricted to its intent, to hire the best and brightest from other nations.
That said, I’m sure this is going to be horribly fucked up somehow. And springing this with zero notice left a ton of people who were traveling in a limbo, like there was a story of a flight about to take off to India that had to go back to the gate because people were basically threatening to jump out of the plane on the runway after this was announced. As usual with Trump, the people don’t seem to matter.
But with that said, I’m not entirely sure this isn’t a great idea.
it wont make them hire locals more, it might make them hire internationally instead to support the operations in the states, without having them moving here.
Maybe. But look at the headline from today or yesterday, Amazon laying off American workers and replacing them with H1B workers…
Not sure this is related at all but didn’t Microsoft just get busted for findings that they used workers in China as support for their GCC tier Azure stuff?
