Posted on 10/02/2025 10:26:01 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
On Friday, Sept. 19, President Donald Trump signed a proclamation stating that new H-1B visa petitions submitted on Sept. 21 or after will require a $100,000 payment. This change would cause MIT to pay over $10 million every year for H-1B visa sponsorships.
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Although the majority of H-1B workers hold a computer-related job (65% in 2023), many universities in the U.S. issue H-1B visas for other international employees, including postdoctoral scholars, researchers, and professors. According to Director of Media Relations Kimberly Allen, MIT submitted 118, 102, and 103 new H1-B visa petitions in 2024, 2023, and 2022, respectively. Under the new order, if MIT plans to sponsor more than 100 H-1B visas each year, its fees would amount to over $10 million. Allen answered on behalf of the International Scholars Office (ISchO) for The Tech’s request for comment.
The ISchO has already reached out to community members potentially affected by the presidential proclamation. Initially, the ISchO recommended that H-1B workers outside the U.S. immediately return to the U.S. by Sept. 20 before the proclamation goes into effect.
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USA universities, non-profit labs, and local, state, and federal government agencies, can hire an unlimited number of H1Bs, every year, which do not count against the fake 85,000 annual H1B quota.
In addition, if a for profit USA company sponsors a foreign worker for a Green Card, that worker is also removed from the 85,000 quota.
Since each H1B is renewable for up to six years, the alleged total of H1Bs should max out at 510,000 per year.
How many H1Bs are currently working in the USA?
Unknown.
Including the quota exempt jobs, it could be 1.5 million.
And that doesn’t include all their dependents who are imported to spawn as many anchor babies as possible.
If Trump does nothing else, dismantling this huge disgraceful plot to kill American STEM jobs would be enough to be a successful presidency.
Immigration is a blight on the middle class.
Obviously MIT finds better talent abroad if they are willing to pay $100,000 for each person.
The foreign parents do not get a free pass to stay in the USA.
I think the maximum visitor visa is six months plus proof of financial ability.
The parents will need to make a living and support the child, too.
Bottom Line - if they want to hold their family together, most of them will have to return to their home country.
The Flip Side - the USA Radical Press will publish a new anchor baby sob story every week, which will probably buckle the knees of many Republican politicians.
The child, of course, can return on his own at age 18.
Or, maybe the Supreme Court will toss some good legal news our way when they decide the citizen-by-birth issue.
Should have charged them 1 million per H1-B.
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