Posted on 10/01/2025 5:49:05 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
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Many H-1B visas are awarded to foreign graduates of U.S. universities. Visa holders can generally stay in the country for up to three years, with an additional three-year extension, and H-1Bs have the additional benefit of being able to be converted into a green card. That’s a common path foreign professionals use to establish permanent citizenship, Glennon said.
How does Trump want to change the H-1B program?
During the COVID-19 pandemic and near the end of his first term, Trump suspended the H-1B visa program, saying he wanted Americans to be able to find jobs in a fragile labor market. Though he extended the suspension through March 2021, President Joe Biden revoked the order and restored the visa program that February.
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“It may, I fear, end up shutting down the entire program, because I’m not sure that even stars are worth $100,000,” she said. Companies may worry about paying huge fees for employees who may come for a short time, hate living in the U.S. and then return to their home country. In the worst case scenario, she said, fewer talented workers in the U.S. would “mean less innovation, less patenting, and therefore less economic growth.”
Generally, experts worry that the Trump administration’s changes to the H-1B visa program will throttle the flow of young talent.
“The $100,000 tax by itself would already sharply reduce demand for entry-level employment, because [an] entry-level worker, by definition, you don’t know them well. You haven’t tested them. You don’t have a relationship with them,” Clemens said.
But it might also discourage more experienced and highly sought workers from pursuing opportunities.
“It’s signaling sort of an unwelcoming environment, so that top talent may not be interested in coming to the U.S.,” Glennon said.
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Anybody who says H1bs are not substitutes for Americans workers, don’t displace American workers and don’t drive down wages for American workers is lying through his teeth. That’s exactly what they do - and everyone knows it. We’re not stupid. When you flood a labor market with 750,000 foreign indentured servants who are typically paid 30% to 40% less than Americans for the same position, OF COURSE its going to drive down wages for Americans. How could it not? Naturally, companies have every incentive to take as many H1Bs as they can get. They’re significantly cheaper and you know they can’t leave you for a competitor. That puts all the power in companies’ hands.
I LMAO when they claim innovation will be slowed or try to huff and puff and talk about how American companies depend on them. Newsflash! America had the largest economy in the world, the most nobel prize winners in science, the most cutting edge technology - by all accounts - prior to the start of the H1B program in 1990. However did we manage without all those H1B Indians? By the way, if they're so super duper smart and cutting edge and all.....how come India doesn't have world beating technology? How come India isn't known for its booming tech sector? What happens to all that intelligence when it stays behind in India?
It is my understanding that the L-1 program covers people already employed by a company overseas to do work in the USA, such as setting up production equipment for a battery factory.
There might be a weekly fee starting at $10 going up by $10/week with no cap.
After a year, the fee would be over $500/week.
After two years, the fee would be over $1,000/week.
Either reduce the number of H1-B visas or put strict rules on their usage. One rule is that if you have an H1-B, you must work in the United States or its territories. You cannot get an H1-B and work remotely back in your country of origin. That allows companies to pay even less. Eliminate H1-B brokers. They, along with Indians who work in hiring for corporations, are getting significant kickbacks for providing more low-cost Indian workers. H1-B should stipulate that American workers must fill 65% of all tech positions hired. They can only outsource 35% of their actual hard positions. (Companies love to list soft job openings with no intention of hiring) H1-B should only be used to fill a position for which there are no available homegrown workers. Every company requesting H1-B visas is subject to an audit of its hiring practices by the Federal Government. Any company caught violating the H1-B guidelines are looking at stiff fines and if repeat offender no longer authorized H1-B hiring.
Unlike Trump’s proposed blank check for college graduate work visas, I would annually limit them to 1/10,000nds of a state’s last completed census count, also approved by the state’s lieutenant governor, and limited to no more than 80% of those nominations submitted to that person, and in such a manner that the lieutenant governor has to exercise genuine discretion.
The lieutenant governor typically is less politically vulnerable and has more time for scrutiny. It would be asking too much of Newsom to screen ~4,000 applications annually.
Mississippi would have less demand for computer scientists, but greater demand for educational & medical people to supply unpopular rural areas.
The US has about 330 million people, so that would be ~33,000 college graduates annually allowed for as long as they are employe (with breaks of no more than seven weeks in any 12-month period) and meet the pay minimums below, with 20% exempt by state [to allow in talented artists and performers].
Minimum required graduate annual pay formula:
$38K any qualifying degree+
$9K any qualifying H-1B degree+
$9K for masters, without Ph.D.+
$18K for Ph.D.+
15 times HUD monthly one-bedroom fair market rent+
$6K degree field wherein certification normally commands a premium+
$10K employee works with technology+
$11K uncommon technical skill useful for national defense possessed
[microwave, radar, integrated circuit, cryptography, signal/image processing and other Secretary of Defense listed]+
$10K management or management degree+
$15K if project management+
$8K employer’s workforce has more than two H-1Bs+
$5K employer’s US full-time workforce exceeds 10+
$5K employer is a publicly traded entity, or controlled by one+
10% graduate program usage premium+
state income tax adjustment
These would get adjusted for inflation as with tax brackets.
Trump went after H-1B visas because India refused to stop buying Russian oil.
PBS has a sad that America might be for Americans....
Your retread idea is a loophole machine.
Your posts are a treat. You know how to make a point. It saves me from having to do it.
“Send in some cash.”
Not everyone allows their name to be posted.
I hopefully contribute enough to cover my bandwidth costs.
Fairness is a core value to me.
We should be thankful for Marcus’ posting contributions. They give us a chance to discuss matters.
I have travelled the world. Open sewers mean the society is corrupt and low IQ. India stinks.
Quit covering for freeploaders.
PBS referring to “experts” sends my skepticism meter off the scale.
H1Bs are scams on so many levers from so many industries beyond where they are working. Real estate, apartment rentals, car loans, restaurants, grocery stores, clothing stores, wire transfer companies,, colleges, banks, etc. All in on the grift of importing “skilled” workers. Coding can happen anywhere in the world. I have worked a lot with very specialized engineers from all over ther the world and most of their work is done in their home countries and they will get temporary visas when they need to be in the shop. But coders and the like can be done anywhere.
Yes, my next-door neighbor is a high-dollar IT guy who does most of his work from home.
I used to work from home as an IT guy for 2 out of 3 weeks for a couple of years.
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