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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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Sorry to hear. I contribute monthly by check and have for many years, yet my screen name has never once shown up on the donor pages for the entire time. Very strange.
From the US Dept. of Labor site
Overview
“The H-1B program applies to employers seeking to hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations ... “
Their employers can have them sent back for any reason.
Don’t conflate these cheap subs with “immigrants”.
They are no more immigrants than the alien nationals here illegally through democrat circumventions of law like “political amnesty” DACA or “temporary stays”—which turn out to be permanent.
The floors of reception areas for these democrat pets are littered with hearing date notices, the hearings a couple years down the road.
I know who you are and respect your thoughts!
Same here. And most recently.
Go home, don’t let the door hit you in the butt on the way out.
Take the skills you cheated Americans out of and fix the open sewer you call a sub continent.
I’m a monthly donor, yet my name doesn’t appear.
Is Marcus in the same boat as me?
I sent you a private freepmail.
Thank you for your support of Free Republic.
It does so, Does so.
Numerous times.
Send them back! India needs lots of work to become a reasonable society in which to live.
It’s going to take some time to undo the Benedict Obama and Sniffy Joe Shizzpantz sabotage.
Looks like some decent moves here by President Trump - really shaking the tree.
Probably not a good idea to chase the Indians into the arms of the Russians and the Chinese - this isn’t a one-dimensional problem, as presented by our resident freeploader, marcusfreeploadamus.
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