POTUS to add $100K fee for H1-B visas.
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I approve, but he should've made it $500k to put a stop to companies replacing American workers with foreigners. Charging $100k won't slow down these larger companies at all.
To hire 10 foreign employees, a company would have to spend $1M at the start.
AHHHH...YOU be thinking Like TEAM MANAGER...GOOD ON YA'!!!!!!
WAS involved with the Indians, won't name company, but they Indeans were a bunch of morons who couldn't think for themselves...Also, they ALWAYS ARGUED with you!!!!!!
Glad this is FINALLY COMING OUT...
NOTE: I wonder if companies will drop their "silly" antics and FINALLY ADMIT THAT AMERICAN PROGRAMMERS ARE THE BEST and REHIRE American programmers, including the ones who are retired...WOULDN'T THAT BE A KICK IN THE HEAD of this SOFTWARE MANAGER(S)!!!!!
There are taught to lie and cheat from an early age, it’s a world of survival of the sneakiest for them.
Hence the arrogance and delusional belief in their over sold ability. They believe their own lies.
I've made a career cleaning up after H1Bs that were incapable of creating functional data structures.
Good for you. In all seriousness, people have died due to their incompetence and lies.
I agree, it’s a good start, but it’s too low.
Having said that, the Administration needs to be somewhat pragmatic. A decent compromise would be to start here and just keep upping the fee until the program actually does attract only elite talent.
Oh boy 80% of our engineers are Indian how's they gonna gets the cheep engineers?
The good news is that 1 good American developer can replace 3 of them.
Just stop internet access for one day to see have qualified these indian “engineers” are.
That is about $8B a year. About 700,000 are in the US.
An H-1B visa is initially valid for up to three years, with potential extensions for another three years, for a maximum total of six years. After the six-year limit, you must either apply for permanent residency, change to a different nonimmigrant visa, or leave the U.S. for at least one year before becoming eligible for a new H-1B visa.
That's it? I see that many in DFW on my morning commute.
They should lose the money if denied.
Should make it a million dollar fee.... stop giving away American jobs.
Make it more expensive than hiring an American.
I wonder what Musk and that rat Vivek think about this?
It’s a genius move, now only serious talent can be justified by accounts department, no more “fully qualified with a still warm diploma” indians.
Woah! I just caught up with the signing in the Oval. It was said that it is $100K per year, not one time. Based on just the new ones each year, that is $8B. But there’s 700,000 here. I don’t know yet if they have to pay for all the ones already here now. But if you assume a reduction down to only 500,000 and all of them being paid for, that would be $50B a year.
Per year, not a one off. The man is a genius.
American job seekers will no longer have unfair competition.
Chief Engineer on X has been complaining about H-1B visas for a long time. Here's what wrote about this - https://x.com/ChiefNiftyswell/status/1969137232285220939
Foreign Visas, American Decay: The Systemic Replacement of U.S. Workers
Trump’s $100,000 H-1B Fee, Questions the Media Won’t Answer
The Trump administration just dropped a bombshell. A $100,000 fee for H-1B applications.
The White House says it’s to curb abuse, stop wage suppression, and protect American workers. But the details are thin, and the stakes are massive.
Here are the questions no one is answering yet:
• Is the $100,000 fee refundable if a petition is denied? • Does it apply to extensions for existing H-1B workers, or only new petitions? • Is it in addition to existing fees, or replacing them? • Will outsourcing firms that flood the lottery with entries be forced to pay, or will they find new loopholes? • How will this affect U.S. tech companies that quietly rely on the cheap labor pipeline? • Will higher prevailing wage requirements finally push companies to hire Americans first?
It's essentially a 30k / yr fee on top of existing fees.
Has the administration been listening to us?
For decades, we were told the H-1B system was untouchable. Now it’s being rewritten in real time.
The policy could end the cost advantage that let corporations replace Americans with imported labor. Or it could be watered down in the details.
What happens next depends on how these questions get answered.
References
Bloomberg News. (2025, September 19). Trump to add new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in latest crackdown. Bloomberg. https://bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-19/trump-to-add-new-100-000-fee-for-h-1b-visas-in-latest-crackdown
Reuters. (2025, September 19). Trump mulls adding new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas – Bloomberg News reports. Reuters. https://reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19
The Economic Times. (2025, September 20). Trump to impose new $100,000 fee for H-1B visas in sweeping overhaul: Report. The Economic Times. https://m.economictimes.com/nri/work/trump-to-impose-new-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visas-in-sweeping-overhaul-report/articleshow/124004554.cms
http://Investing.com. (2025, September 19). Trump to impose $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications – Bloomberg. http://Investing.com. https://investing.com/news/economy-news/trump-to-impose-100000-fee-on-h1b-visa-applications--bloomberg-93CH-4247341
President Trump, bump it up to 1 million.🫡🇺🇲