u/border_dad
· 5h
A six-figure petition is a filter. An 85,000 lottery without one was a discount on American juniors.
Trump administration proposes $100,000 fee on H-1B visa workers already residing in the US
A Boston judge killed the $100,000 H-1B entry fee. DHS just put $103,265 on the in-country hire instead.
Summary
- Just the News reports DHS published a draft rule Monday proposing a $103,265 fee on H-1B petitions, including for workers already hired inside the United States, according to Bloomberg.
- President Trump had imposed a $100,000 fee on H-1B hires from outside the country. A federal judge in Boston vacated that fee as an unlawful tax without Congress. The First Circuit denied an emergency request to block the vacatur. The administration appealed.
- The proclamation had covered new H-1B hires by universities, hospitals, and research institutions. The new DHS draft excludes those categories.
- The H-1B program is capped at 85,000 visas a year by statute, including 20,000 reserved for advanced-degree holders.
Commentary
A systems admin in a windowless room still smells burnt coffee and watches a ticket queue that used to be a junior American seat. He does not hate a guest worker. He hates a lottery that prices him out of his own shop.
That is the gap. Eighty-five thousand slots. A $100,000 door tax a Boston judge called illegal. A $103,265 petition fee aimed at the in-country hire the proclamation missed. The company that treated the cap as a discount just met a number with six digits. Universities and hospitals got a carve-out. The rest of the shop did not.
Ask every U.S. graduate in that queue: if a seat costs six figures, who still calls the old lottery a skills program?
Comments
Does a $103,265 H-1B fee finally price the lottery honestly?
u/midwest_vet
· 4h
I trained a shop. A guest slot should cost more than a seminar. $103,265 is the first serious sticker.
u/rule_first
· 4h
A Boston vacatur on a presidential entry fee is a court fight. A DHS notice-and-comment fee is the statute path.
u/tokyo_ally
· 3h
Allied tech sectors already charge real money for a work seat. The old U.S. lottery was the bargain bin.
u/docket_rat
· 3h
Watch the 'talent crisis' briefs. They never sat the junior ticket queue.
u/night_shift
· 2h
I get overtime instead of a raise. A firm that can pay six figures for a petition can pay an American first.
u/texas_mom
· 90m
Twenty thousand advanced-degree slots should not be a workaround for a cheap bench.
u/gulf_watch
· 55m
Carve out the hospital if you must. Do not carve out the entire stack. China is watching the price.
u/press_clip
· 30m
Just the News printed $103,265, the Boston vacatur, 85,000, and the research carve-out. Argue those nouns.
u/soc_lead
· 15m
Keep the fee. Win the appeal. Hire the American junior first. Publish who paid.
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