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Posted on 04/04/2026 6:07:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Hyderabad, India — The city of Hyderabad has been called the Silicon Valley of India.
"Google, Facebook, and all the other bigger companies are here," Rajesh Jaknalli, who has worked for a U.S. tech company in Hyderabad for about 10 years, told CBS News.
"This place is actually called High Tech City, but because of the many companies that we have, the term 'Cyberabad' has come," Jaknalli explained.
Jaknalli says he has worked here with one goal, to get an opportunity to one day move to the U.S.
"Our dream was to perform, give you 100%, and then probably, we'll get a chance to move to the U.S.," Jaknalli said.
But in September 2025, the Trump administration announced that it would require that a $100,000 fee be added to new applications for H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers. The White House argued the move would protect American jobs.
Prior to this, H-1B visas had ranged in cost from anywhere between $1,700 and $4,500.
Hameed Abdul thought his Amazon job in Hyderabad would eventually take him to the U.S., but that outlook has changed.
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The fact the ‘global talent’ attends American universities to learn their trade makes me believe the U.S. citizens are just as qualified or more. AMERICA FIRST.
"Hameed Abdul thought his Amazon job in Hyderabad would eventually take him to the U.S., but that outlook has changed."
Oracle just reduced their workforce by over 10,000 employees. Amazon did the same with thousands earlier.
If we need people for tech jobs, let’s start there.
America attracts slave labor just fine.
I am very much against this $100,000 H-1B visa fee. Because it should be at least $1,000,000.
Oh, wait. Sorry. I meant at least $5,000,000.
Sorry, Hameed. At some point America must get back to caring for Americans. No country can absorb and support the entire 3rd world.
Dalits and Thuggees belong in India, not the USA. America has enough filthy democrats.
Excellent! That’s exactly what we wanted....fewer H1bs and fewer foreigners stealing American jobs and moving here.
The story is after the Oracle layoff they asked for a truck load of h1bs. Why?
I’ve worked with hundreds of India’s in my career. The majority were substandard and less than a handful were good or very good. Yet they were cheap to buy which was their claim to fame.
Amen! Who cares about globull talent. We need Americans doing those jobs.
Living here in Silicon Valley for some months out of the year, I’m surprised that there are any Indians left in India. I thought they had all already moved here.
This from our good friends at See-B. S.
All the got were crooks
> No country can absorb and support the entire 3rd world. <
Interestingly enough, that was once also Bernie Sanders’ position. He was very much against unrestricted immigration.
Then he shut up about it. Maybe Chuck Schumer took Bernie into a side room, and beat the crap out of him. Get your mind right, Bernie.
H1B is, was and always will be a scam.
My suggested H-1B system:
1. replace the existing system with a salary-based, monthly in 2025 and weekly thereafter, auction system
2. start with 330 openings per bid period day [and to make the system employer demand responsive]:
a. increase openings by 10 per day, up to 500 openings per day, if the winning bid average goes higher
b. decrease openings by 10 per day, down to 200 openings per day, if the winning bid average goes lower
3. get rid of the bogus can’t find an American nonsense
4. limit H-1Bs to 10% of the number of full-time, directly employed, PPACA-regulated health care cost coverage plan covered employees of the employer having a college degree
5. must work on employer’s premises on employer’s project
6. may not ever serve as a chain migration anchor [at most children/spouse]
7. fees
a. $2,000 per bid fee [to deter bogus/duplicate bids & prevent auction system denial of service], plus
b. a winner fee of 10% of the bid salary, or $8,000, whichever is higher [to compensate for reduced domestic search costs],
c. an annual inverse salary fee of 10% of the salary amount less than $200,000 plus 20% of the salary amount less than $120,000, plus
d. a payroll health coverage cost savings fee of $6 per week per year of age under age 65 [so highly experienced Americans not replaced by cheap, healthy young foreigners]
8. The Secretary of Labor shall compile computer software development language lists each December and May [college course completion months]
and shall only list languages it found to have been in existence for at least one year
9. H-1B persons can’t start work coding in a software development project in any Secretary of Labor-listed language
10. H-1B persons can’t do managerial work in their first two years in the program
The person must have at least a four-year degree in a statutorily specified subject from a Secretary of Education list of selected, respected educational institutions.
The minimum salary amount should be 120% of the most recent DoL salary survey average for the degree and years of experience using a least vertical offset squares minimized curve. If the degree is foreign, the closest common domestic degree shall be the standard to which the 120% is applied.
The H-1Bs should be bid out and awarded based on the salary premium in dollars to the minimum.
The bidder must have paid FICA in excess of $50,000 for the penultimate year per winner (to block out scammers). The Secretary of Labor may waive this requirement for up to 1,000 people per year. The bidder must have already won at auction. Auction fees would not be refunded if the waiver is not granted. The waivers will permit startups to import talent.
There would be no requirement beyond common sense to seek domestic talent (as the idea that no domestic person can be found to do a lawful high-tech job is ridiculous). The winner fee of at least $8,000 will encourage paying for a search for domestic talent.
A subsequent employer of a person would have to have a subsequent winning bid for the person.
Allowing an imported person to find a better employer would discourage employer abuse of imported employees.
The previous employer would have a qualified (subject to then current law) right to import an eligible replacement person at the bid salary or higher if the person left within one year of auction close.
After six years of salary payment at the person’s initial winning bid level or higher, the H-1B person might then be awarded permanent residence if the law in effect at the time allows for it.
[If the salary is $80,000, the annual inverse salary fee would be $20,000 ($12,000 plus $8,000).]
[The software body shops would need to set up partnerships with American colleges to meet most of their staffing needs.]
You do have another 2 years. Just not there.
Contact me privately and I'll share what seems to be working for me.
Just no thanks-leave the fee where it is, since it is keeping out more foreigners coming here to live and to take jobs that Americans should be hired for-and it’s a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say. Let some other country’s industries be the subject of your proposed hiring experiment...
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