Slap a 50% tariff on the wages of all H1Bs that come here to work at Microsoft...and all kinds of places like universities, hospital and medical IT, local governments.
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As of 2025, roughly 442,000 unique beneficiaries were registered for H-1B visas in the United States, according to USCIS data. For the Fiscal Year 2025 (starting October 1, 2024), about 120,600 H-1B registrations were initially selected in the lottery, which is a subset of the total registrations submitted. The total number of eligible registrations dropped significantly from about 759,000 in 2024 to around 470,000 registrations in 2025, reflecting changes in the selection process aimed at reducing multiple registrations for the same individual and limiting fraud.
These numbers reflect registrations for new and continuing H-1B status, but the total number of active H-1B visa holders in the U.S. at any given time includes both new visa holders and those with ongoing valid H-1B status from prior years. USCIS does not publish an exact current total population of all active H-1B visa holders, but estimates indicate hundreds of thousands of people hold valid H-1B visas in the U.S. at any time.
In Fiscal Year 2026, the number of eligible H-1B registrations further decreased to about 344,000, with USCIS selecting around 118,660 unique beneficiaries by the end of the first lottery round. The continuation of the beneficiary-centric selection process, where each individual is entered only once regardless of multiple employer registrations, is credited with this decline.
“”Slap a 50% tariff on the wages of all H1Bs that come here to work at Microsoft...and all kinds of places like universities, hospital and medical IT, local governments.””
How about a nice, hefty tax on American companies that choose to hire foreign customer service agents instead of hiring American ones. Getting really tired of trying to understand what the hell they’re saying... that is, IF you can get a human one on the phone.