People here were grousing last week about Trump backsliding on this issue. It looks like he didn’t but solved the issue in an unexpected way. This solves the issue while leaving the program in place
Sniff
Sniff
Usually only one coma in $100,000
"You can contribute any combination of monthly and/or one-time contributions to reach this goal."
Or you can be like marcus, and not contribute ANYTHING but spam, rooterspimpink and blogpimping to Free Republic!
“Hey, marcus, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort of maintaining Free Republic so's you got a place to spam and troll, you know.”
The company will just employ him at their Indian offices. So india gets to retain its talent
Posted on 9/28/2025, 2:07:33 PM by Jim Robinson
Dear FRiends, We need your continuing support to keep FR funded. Your donations are our sole source of funding. No sugar daddies, no advertisers, no paid memberships, no commercial sales, no gimmicks, no tax subsidies. This means no spam [except Deep In The Spam Forest], no pop-ups, no ad trackers.
======
Get on the FR contribution train for Q4, freeploadusmaximus!
This is the case for the Indian student energy engineer that works for me. Not cool. You invest time and resources to find someone qualified, they move to Florida for you,and now have no hope of transferring from F1 to H1B. It is a cruel joke for both employers and employees.
This is so sad; but, maybe they can still get an interest free loan and buy a Quickie Mart or a Motel Chain.
We need to employ our domestic engineers first.
Oh my goodness! You mean those companies are going to have to hire Americans and pay American wages in America?
What a disaster!
“‘Cruel joke’: How Indian H-1B dreams are crash-landing after Trump fee hike ... Thousands of young Indians have mapped their adult lives with the aim of moving to the US”
SWEET!
thousands of jobs suddenly opening to USA graduates with STEM degrees! ... thank you, President Trump!!!
[besides, India has always been heavily in the sphere of the Soviets, so no real friend of ours anyway]
Of course, I am in favor of this, but only wish the $100,000 fee was annual and not a one-time payment.
Why doesn’t India have its own schools and universities? Why must foreigners come here to be educated. IMHO, our schools don’t educate anymore. They brainwash and program students.
Times are hard
You’re afraid to pay the fee
So you find yourself somebody
Who can do the job for free
— “Dirty Work” by Steely Dan
And this proves that H1b visas were always a way to import lesser foreign talent to the US, mostly from one country to pay them less than an American would have made.
Funny I never see articles about how the H1-B visa program has hit American’s hard.
Aside from those who can’t find work or get laid off for foreign replacements, it depresses wages for the entire field.
This program should have been ended or severely restricted years ago.
The horror, the horror.