Posted on 09/20/2025 4:18:27 PM PDT by hcmama
To be clear:
1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It’s a one-time fee that applies only to the petition.
2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter.
H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the country to the same extent as they normally would; whatever ability they have to do that is not impacted by yesterday’s proclamation.
3.) This applies only to new visas, not renewals, and not current visa holders.
It will first apply in the next upcoming lottery cycle
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Can't see how this helps current job seekers
dammit
And now for the usual waffling and backtracking.
RE: typo
That’s okay. You’re clearly just clarifying the clarification.
I made a resolution to stop my frequent FR typos but my swollen knuckles refused to agree.
This allows American workers more of an opportunity to achieve The American Dream. Now it's up to the worker to produce value.
None of this will produce overnight results. In the long run, it's better for Americans.
My kids keep telling me to get Grammarly, but I don't want that little AI bot all up in what I write.
And the replies to Leavitt's post are....scorching.
sigh.
Tech bros must have started to cry to Trump.
We need to get rid of all Pajeets in this country sooner rather than later.
It’s getting to be a familiar dance. Two steps forward, one and a half back.
The change is a de facto recognition that the true H1B petitioners are the companies wanting the hire the person who will have the H1B visa and it is those companies that will wind up paying the fee.
I would prefer an H1B system that would be entirely different and would cut the companies out have having any control of it whatsoever. They could hire someone who, on their own, applied for an HiB visa (no “lottery”, just first come first serve on a set number available - set by an annual labor department analysis that also included data on STEM college graduates and their unemployment rates), but once approved for the H1B they become open to hire by any employer and once hired can switch employers by their own choosing, in the same job category, during the period the H1B remains valid, including any extensions. The H1B holder would no longer be in a compromised situation, having to remain with a certain employer even while that employer paid a lower wage to them than U.S. citizens and green card holders were being paid.
Humility comes from humiliation, said Mother Theresa
So it doesn’t affect the current 10 million H-1B holders. Sigh.
The tech giants will just continue scamming the system and millions more third worlders will come and produce anchor babies as soon as they step foot here.
Indians run SV. And SV funded Trump’s campaign. The rest is predictable. Like Trump’s inexplicable support for the vile fraudster Ramascammy for Ohio gov.
It sure sounded like an annual fee when they were talking about it at the press signing event.
That tranches session doesn't close until OCTOBER of next year.
What was signed yesterday expires in 1 YEAR - BEFORE THE CLOSE!
I don't like having smoke blown up my a**.
Sounds very rational to me. Increase the initial costs of an H1B so companies cannot import cheap labor to cut out Americans.
Phase it in to allow the least disruption.
Will be fully in place in three years.
Not even Tuesday and we get T.A.C.O.s.
Bummer, if true.
I go out of my way to avoid doing business with them.
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