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Posted on 10/01/2025 4:15:12 PM PDT by marcusmaximus
Confusion and fear gripped H-1B visa holders over the weekend as a sudden US policy change forced some to choose between family commitments abroad and their careers in the United States. President Donald Trump’s announcement of a USD 100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications, part of a broader immigration crackdown, sent shockwaves through the tech and finance sectors, prompting workers from India and China to abandon travel plans and rush back to the US.
At San Francisco airport, an engineer whose wife was scheduled to fly to Dubai described the impossible decision he faced. “It is a situation where we had to choose between family and staying here," he said. After learning of the new rule, several Indian passengers demanded to deplane, causing the Emirates flight to be delayed by more than three hours. Ultimately, his wife, also an H-1B holder, returned to India to care for her sick mother. “It's quite tragic. We have built a life here,” he told Reuters.
Others recounted similar upheaval online. On the Chinese social media app Rednote, a woman using the handle “Emily's Life in NY” described boarding a United Airlines flight from New York to Paris, only to be forced back to the gate after her company’s lawyers instructed employees abroad to return. “My feelings are a mix of disappointment, sadness, and frustration,” she said, explaining that she had to cancel plans with friends, including visitors from China.
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What Lyman doink? Is your new troll so very fascinatink?
Thanks for providink me a platform to promote the Freep-A-Thons and shame freeploading deadbeats like yourself.
Maybe we’ll get ‘er done quicker this way, and take some stress off Jim Robinson and the rest of the Robinsons.
“deadbeats, spammers and freeploaders, marcus hears it from the people of FR, they call him.”
Everytime an H-1B visa leach goes home permanently an angel gets his wings.
“It’s quite tragic. We have built a life here.”
You were here on a temporary work visa. Why the HELL would you think you were “building a life here”?
“Tragic” is the last word I would use.
Maybe Marcus isn’t contributing money (I don’t know if he is), but he sure is contributing a lot of good content to FR. Not everybody does that.
Thank you for the articles you post, Marcus.
You’re welcome.
You won’t contribute to the Freep-A-Thon because you don’t want your bosses to see your name on the donations board.
What ‘donations board’?
https://freerepublic.com/donate/donors
You’re a ComputerGuy - you can take it from there. Perhaps I’ll write up the entire path.
Y’all are an Ass!
Jim has banned me for God knows
what several times!
He cries Poor, well a little
forgiveness goes a LONG way.
He does
not forgive!
So I do not contribute.
Think about that.
I’m only on the donations board in 2024. I usually click the “anonymous” button. I’ve been donating for years.
Maybe he’s a monthly donor or something like that.
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I heard from a friend that you can’t even rent a house here because the houses are owned by Indians who rent to other Indians.
Honestly it would be nice to go to Costco and not feel like you're in a foreign country!
My daughter is in the hunter/jumper horse world - teaches clients to ride, buys & sells horses, etc. NOT a cheap sport.
There are so many foreign kids...I think the whites are outnumbered. The foreigners the money - it can cost 100k/year per kid/horse easily.
I even remember trying to rent an apartment in Burlington MA back in the 1980s. I was an American and they preferred to rent to Indians so they would only tell me the apartments were ‘very expensive’ and not quote me a price.
And the curry stink never goes away.
Most Indians (the ones from India) seem to make little or no effort to assimilate. They came here with these crazy long names that are impossible to pronounce. They have kids here and give them crazy long names too.
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