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Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

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1245 points mriguy | 2 comments | 19 Sep 25 19:59 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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suriya-ganesh ◴[19 Sep 25 20:57 UTC] No.45306489[source]▶
Interesting decision. I'm on the F1 -> H1B pipeline myself as a software engineer. And my wife is a researcher working on Genetic Engineering.

Of the both of us, I've been the strong proponent for moving the US. and with each passing day, its getting harder to make a strong case for the pain, and uncertainty of moving here.

Lately everything has been counter to what one would expect from a pro-growth, accelerationist country. But I understand where the reasoning is coming from, though.

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nceqs3 ◴[19 Sep 25 21:22 UTC] No.45306787[source]▶
if you are exceptional, there is always the O-1 visa
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1. guywithahat ◴[19 Sep 25 21:45 UTC] No.45307047[source]▶
The H1B really should have just been an O-1 from the beginning. Being a software or genetics engineer isn't really that interesting, we literally have millions of software engineers, and more genetics engineers than we have good jobs. If someone is truly exceptional than they deserve an O-1, and if you truly can't find any engineers in the US at your salary then maybe you should move overseas.
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2. suriya-ganesh ◴[19 Sep 25 22:24 UTC] No.45307458[source]▶
Might be, but that's how you end up in a situation where all the technical skill is outside the US and the products inside are a marketing layer over technical efforts.

Similar to what ended up happening with china and manufacturing.