President dramatically raised cost of visa for highly skilled workers in executive order last year
A US judge has invalidated Donald Trump’s $100,000 annual fee on H-1B visa applications, ruling it an unlawful tax that violated federal administrative law and the constitution.
US district judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the 42-page ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas… The ruling vacated the sweeping fee, which was a 20-to-50 fold increase on existing rates, and the Trump administration is widely expected to appeal.
In his ruling, Sorokin’s found that the fee amounted to a tax, rather than a regulatory restriction. Since the constitution gives Congress, not the president, the exclusive power to levy taxes, Trump lacked the authority to impose it.
The $100,000 fee is yet another tactic being used to restrict already heavily limited means of legally emigrating to the U.S.
H1Bs are temporary. You can apply for a green card while on an H1B, though that’s not the intent. H1Bs bring immigrants in to pay them dirt, suppress wages for citizens, then send them back and bring in the next wave.
Green card application, if you go for it, also requires that you remain in your current position until the multi-year process is done. So promotions are out of the question and goos luck getting any raises. Have an issue with work treating you like a dog? Have fun picking up your family and moving back overseas.
Meanwhile US citizens need to compete with desperate immigrants being paid half as much as an American worker.
the only reason trump is keeping it around because musk and all the tech bros need to replace the layoffs staff.
The pay is roughly similar. The law was written to try to prevent that part.
It’s the near slavery and coercion part that they get excited about. When Twitter went to shit guess who stayed? The people who would be deported otherwise.
Not in practice it isn’t. It’s always significantly lower than what the people they fire to open a spot for it made.
oh yea they can fire you and threaten you at any time.
H1B has to be renewed annually.