New $100,000 H-1B Fee Planned for Visa Workers Already in US

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-08-24/new-100-000-h-1b-fee-planned-for-visa-workers-already-in-us

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ramble81@lemmy.zip · 19 pts · 13d (5 replies)

I’ll say it again. This won’t increase employment of Americans. It’ll just hasten offshoring instead.

sanitation@lemmy.today · -17 pts · 13d (4 replies)

I'll say this - wtf we need h1b anymore? With AI I can replace 200 indian devs

arbitrary_sarcasm@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 13d

Let me know how that works out for you btw.

ramble81@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 13d

Dude that’s going even worse. Fuck AI with a rusty pole.

redsand@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 13d

The Indian devs in my experience are using AI now so to the haters... The offshore rip is really just pumping AI with a middle man now

hoppeduponcoffee@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d

If my experience using AI tools to generate python script to separate audio into AI-generated stems means anything, then you absolutely DON’T want to do that. It fucks up all the time and the results are rarely good.

darvocet@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 13d (2 replies)

Broken clocks

BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 13d

Businesses love H1-Bs because it's practically slave labor. Let the VISA holders have a grace period to more easily switch jobs, even join a union, so the salaries get closer parity with American workers. They'd then have to compete on their merits not their low price tag.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 12d

Yup, this. Donnie is probably doing it for xenophobic reasons, but, honestly - I don't think we should have ever had the h1b system, at least not in the way it was used. It was always totally scammy and just used to suppress wages.

If a company really cannot find the talent domestically, then there should be a program in which someone has their citizenship accelerated so they are FULL citizens working here. But this bullshit of having disposable workers - fuuuuuck that noise.

Bristlecone@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 13d

Fucking so dumb.

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 12d

Next come the exceptions and selective enforcement.

sunbrrnslapper@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 13d

I'm in a part of the country where I'm competing with global talent for a job. To be frank, I'm not that good - and neither are most people. It makes it incredibly difficult to get a job in the area. So, I'm not totally heartbroken about the fee. I'd like to see more companies invest in local talent.