Government Proposes New Six-Figure Fee for H1B Visas(www.wsj.com)
39 pointsby ilarum4 hours ago5 comments
  • FatherOfCursesan hour ago
    In other words, companies who rely on H1B visas are not donating enough to Trump 2028 or the Republican party.
  • bellowsgulch18 minutes ago
    I vote for Democrats. Sad they didn't step up for American tech workers though, and the guy shitting himself did.
  • hn_submit2 hours ago
    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?

  • wtfHN263 hours ago
    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.

    • rayiner3 hours ago
      Nothing stops those companies from moving offshore anyway. If being in the U.S. didn’t offer advantages they wouldn’t be here to begin with. At some point americans are going to have to start having faith that their own country and people are a competitive edge against other countries.
      • add-sub-mul-div20 minutes ago
        There's certainly fewer barriers to offshoring now that employees have insisted there's no benefit to being onsite.
      • Daishiman32 minutes ago
        > If being in the U.S. didn’t offer advantages they wouldn’t be here to begin with.

        For companies hiring H1Bs it's about being closer to clients and colleagues and just being managerially far easier than opening an offshore office, but the benefit isn't infinite and once companies have the chops for opening new offices they'll turn down the H1B hiring.

        The issue for the US is that, are you're saying, "having faith in your own country" only works if you have the process for developing unnaturally skillfull talent, which is just not going to happen once the smart people stop moving to the US as countries have uniformly distributed talent potential.

    • lingua_franca2 hours ago
      The government can penalize companies for doing so.
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    • cyanydeez3 hours ago
      oh that's an optimistic view; more likely they slip some more bills into omni-trumps hands and this is silently dropped.

      Assume grift first when any American regulation is proposed.

  • throwa356262an hour ago
    All Canada needs to do to become the center of innovation now is to... become 10°C warmer.
    • whoamii13 minutes ago
      This is why their forests are currently burning
    • _aavaa_an hour ago
      Warmer would help, but the latitude difference still gets you on sun height and hours of daylight in the winter months.
      • throwa356262an hour ago
        I dont know, warm weather but not too much direct sunlight could actually be a good thing.
    • jerlam38 minutes ago
      They're getting a nice assist from global warming.
    • wetpawsan hour ago
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