Posted on 07/29/2026 5:21:34 AM PDT by Red Badger
Senator Rick Scott has introduced a bill that would charge employers a $10,000 fee for filing a claim to the Department of Labor (DOL) to sponsor a foreign worker for a green card, saying his proposal would give American citizens a “fair shot at the American Dream.”
A “PERM,” short for the Program Electronic Review Management certification form, are what companies file to the DOL claiming that there are no “able, willing, qualified and available” Americans for a job, in order for them to hire non-citizens.
According to immigration visa consultant firm Lighthouse HQ, getting a PERM is the “first and most critical stage in many employment-based green card applications.”
Despite the fact that the labor certification of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) requires employers to place job advertisements in newspapers in the area of intended employment to alert U.S. citizens of the opportunity, some employers create a loophole by intentionally placing ads in low-circulation papers.
Scott’s “American Hiring Transparency Act,” introduced on Tuesday, would hand a $10,000 fee to businesses that go through this process. Half of that money would be deposited into a new “PERM Fee Account,” while the other half would be deposited into the U.S. Treasury’s general fund.
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And 75K for a renewaal.
Agree, it should be higher. $10K is nothing to the big tech companies.
It will find out how serious they are.
They spend $10k on snacks per day................
They should also be required to post job openings prominently on their website.
We used to have a free local paper here called ‘Thrifty Nickle’ that people could advertise their For Sale stuff instead of giving it to Goodwills.
There were some odd Help Wanted ads in it from time to time...............
It’s a cynical charge. Pure posturing without consequence.
It should be a year’s worth of pay.
Including Medicare and Social Security Taxes!.........
Yep, FICA taxes too.
Having been on the inside of corporate hiring here is my experience.
I knew exactly who I wanted for a position. This was for a test station designer. That’s a highly specialized, highly skilled job. When I hadn’t heard from the guy I called him. He’d called HR, not having heard from them and they’d told him he wasn’t qualified. I went to HR and the clerk told me in a disgusted voice. He isn’t qualified. We need a black or a female. Preferably a black female. I ended up with a black male straight out of college, and he was useless even for any other beginning engineering job. I tried not to hire him, but it turns out my opinion as the engineering manager wasn’t relevant even when I complained to the CEO. The test station design was spread out amongst other engineers who eventually all left as they were working constant overtime.
If you hire someone as a contractor, I’d imagine all that politics gets sidestepped. So, part of the hiring issue may be the state or federal requirements to meet DEI. Those are all tied up in the incentive fees. Incentive fees are where the top-level management get their bonus from. If they hire a bunch of qualified Indians on contract, then they can use the money saved to meet their DEI quota and those people can spend all day sitting on their thumbs, but the work still gets done.
” ... some employers create a loophole by intentionally placing ads in low-circulation papers.
They should also be required to post job openings prominently on their website.
These are tech jobs mostly in IT or engineering, they are listed on the national sites, it just is, H1Bs get the benefit of the doubt on their skills, their work ethics because the interviewers are insanely unaware of what they do and cost is the only factor. Americans are unable to deal with the chaos of the hiring process, as a candidate you are made to fell unwanted and have to make efforts to keep everything on track to get yourself Infront of the actual manager with a company badge, when it use to be a HR drone served as a POC.
A tremendous number of the fortune 5000 jobs are not listed under the actual company but a shell contract company to protect the big company from lawsuits and judgements for unfair hiring practices. As a contractor, you never see anyone from your firm, your just a second class corprate citizen, excluded from any hope of promotion for a job well done.
The solution is simple, 50% state income tax on the income of H1Bs. The states need to press these employees home.
What happened to the $300,000 for an H-1B permit?
Almost the exact same thing happened to me at a former company......... That no longer exists........😁
BRAVE AI:
The $100,000 fee (often referenced in total for multi-year extensions) for H-1B visas is not currently required because a federal court has struck it down.
Court Ruling: On June 8, 2026, U.S. District Court Judge Leo Sorokin ruled the $100,000 fee unlawful, stating it acted as an unauthorized tax imposed without Congressional approval.
Appeals Decision: The First Circuit Court of Appeals denied the federal government’s request to reinstate the fee on July 24, 2026, allowing the lower court’s vacatur to remain in effect nationwide.
Current Status: USCIS is not permitted to collect the $100,000 payment from H-1B employers at this time.
Future Outlook: The government’s main appeal is still pending, meaning the fee could potentially return if higher courts rule in favor of the administration or if the Supreme Court becomes involved.
Yes per month
Ah, yes, yet ANOTHER meaningless bill promoted by the pro-cheap-labor, amnesty-pushing wing of the Uniparty.
TERMINATE the job Visa mill & biz that “need” {skill/#} employees can pay to TRAIN for those position/amount(s). {X} # years for ${Y} or level of degree/training; else, trainee pays back
You know, Free Market & all. Shame the (R)N(C) has willfully forgotten about it.
Then more manufacturing will be outsourced out of USA.
If you examine why companies fail, it’s usually that the incentive structure is bad for continued existence. In the cases I’m aware of, it was obvious and we tried to warn top level management. But once incentives have been passed by the board there’s no rewriting them.
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