BREAKING: Trump Adds $100,000 (Annual?) Fee For Each H-1B Visa Applicant. India, China Top Numbers.

[CBalla]

Gov might exempt medical workers

gotta relax and let it play out


cuz something gotta be done

see

 

[JT-Money]

 

[Ozymandeas]

You ain't lying at all.

But aside from the math part of it, there's the retention side of it. Not all but some H1B's stay at a company for 4 years no issue while never getting promotions working the job of 2-3 people because they're stuck with one sponsor who needs to vouch for them basically every year or whatever.
And on your example, Pajeet would be getting like 55k at most, so 155k. Ain't no way Pajeet salary gonna be the same as John's after the 100k expense!

But whatever, to say that americans ain't gonna benefit from this is a lie. Especially short term. Housing already going down since so many people stopped studying in the US ever since the fiasco with the universities.

Nikkas hate Trump so much (I loathe Trump) they can’t admit he’s right about this one thing. E = MC2. Math is math. Doesn’t matter if a Dem said it or a Republican said it. Democrats should be ashamed for allowing the H1B visa program to be abused this long.

 

[MikelArteta]

Trump’s $100,000 Visa Fee Spurs Confusion and Chaos​

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/business/trump-h1b-visas-fee-employees.html

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Bernie
The Hundred Acre Wood
9h ago
As the former head of strategy for one of the world’s largest IT services companies, I know a lot more about the abuses of the H-1B visa program than most people. It is a simple fact that this program has been abused for years. Virtually no one hired by Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, Wipro, Infosys or Tata Consulting Services has rare skills Americans lack. That’s ostensibly why we hired such workers, but that’s not the real reason. The real reason was simply this: they were cheap and compliant.

When losing your job means you’re probably going to be deported (most likely to India which receives the supermajority of these visas), you can’t afford to put in mediocre work or complain about long hours or tight deadlines. That’s especially true when your deportation lops a zero off your compensation.

All of the “body shops” in the IT services sector employ the same strategy we used at my old firm. We did so because some of our US-based clients wanted US-based workers handling their tech implementations, and the most profitable way for us to do that with the lowest turnover was to use H-1B workers. They were not more skilled than American IT workers. They were cheaper and more compliant. The relationship was exploitative. This should surprise exactly no one.

I can’t speak for Amazon, Microsoft or the other tech majors, but I assume a not insignificant portion of Amazon’s 10,000 H-1B hires last year fall into the same category.

Just like TFWS in canada

get rid of em

 

[Ozymandeas]

Just like TFWS in canada

get rid of em

It’s insulting to our intelligence that people try to argue this isn’t what’s happening.

 

[Makavalli]

Nikkas hate Trump so much (I loathe Trump) they can’t admit he’s right about this one thing. E = MC2. Math is math. Doesn’t matter if a Dem said it or a Republican said it. Democrats should be ashamed for allowing the H1B visa program to be abused this long.

This thread too long to read through but why is Trump doing this if he is down with the Tech Bros? Did he turn on them too?

 

[JT-Money]

This thread too long to read through but why is Trump doing this if he is down with the Tech Bros? Did he turn on them too?

He wants leverage over India in the ongoing trade negotiations. Trump doesn't really care anything about US citizen tech jobs.

He knows India can't produce enough jobs internally for all it's citizens. And that's why the Indian Government encourages it's citizens to leave for employment elsewhere. If all Indians we're forced to return home from abroad there would be riots. Not only is finding a good job difficult there but you don't get paid shyt either.

 

[WIA20XX]

He knows India can't produce enough jobs internally for all it's citizens.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Meanwhile - The Ganges



Got all them IIT boys cleaning up data for machine intelligence, but can't build a machine to clean up their holiest river, the very symbol of India.

 

[King Sun]

You have no idea what I'd be happy with, so good luck with your fishing expeditions and trying to change the subject.


Trump & Co, are grifting thieves, end of story. All this other babble is just looking for someone to blame other than those responsible.

Dudes really think this is going to help black people in America . Do yall even work in IT? Or shyt nursing?

 

[Umoja]

America is about to fall behind something fierce. You're not investing in your people. The model is reliant on pouching the best talent from overseas.

 

[Strapped]

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

edit: n/m prolly fake

 

[JT-Money]

 

[jesc07]

Nikkas hate Trump so much (I loathe Trump) they can’t admit he’s right about this one thing. E = MC2. Math is math. Doesn’t matter if a Dem said it or a Republican said it. Democrats should be ashamed for allowing the H1B visa program to be abused this long.

Their whole identity is disagreeing with anything Trump says or does.

They can't be objective about anything.

 

[MostReal]

all because this country refused to invest in education for HBCUs and even the white people of America. Its sad bruh

totally eroded the Public education system for non citizens