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Nobody is more craven than the tech-right crowd, who are willing to throw their principles and every single part of the US economy under the bus as long as their precious AI companies get their exemptions—first with the tariffs and now inevitably with this H1B visa fee.
It's another way of taking bribes.
Only the loyal get exemptions.
This administration is corrupt to the core.
"Pure economic self harm" could describe the entirety of Trump's economic policy thus far and Im BARELY exaggerating
Lutnick said per year but the text says per petition
So it could cover 6 years per my read
There is essentially no one willing to pay the fee right? So basically it goes from an oversubscribed lottery to a handful of H1Bs for favored companies each year?
Who knows what their detailed strategy is, but I doubt they'll bring H1B immigration down to a handful. My guess is they'll exempt a bunch of prominent tech companies and whatever Andreesen asks for while holding the exemption as leverage over companies and immigrants.
So basically, all the "high skilled" workers are actually not that high skilled or irreplaceable.
If they're making $200k/year, they can afford the 1 time $100k fee that their American employer is paying lmao
With AI, aren’t most entry level software jobs going to go away anyway? The writing has been on the wall for H1B for quite some time.
Whether or not it results in more jobs for citizens is a totally different question.
All visa fees are covered by the sponsor though. This is such a nothingburger.
Yes, there should be “exemptions” to benefit American citizens at the expense of foreigners. I don’t believe in a “meritocracy”, I believe in helping my nation and my people.
You think they'll let those positions sit empty rather than hire Americans at the same salary level?
Call it what you want, but slapping a $100K price tag on visas looks less like a “fee” and more like a presidential tax by proclamation. The Constitution gave that power to Congress, not the Oval Office.
There is absolutely zero argument to be made against a young American trying to start a family and build their career and buy a home, in favor of infinity Indians because “but the tech skills dude. Americas tech is from Indians dude.”
Why would we need H1Bs if we have AI coding agents?
Serious question.
More taxe revenu for Canada, example : Facebook Toronto will hire more star programmers instead of moving them to the U.S.
Everything with Trump is transactional. This will be used for leverage and political extortion.
I feel incredibly dumb for not immediately thinking of the grift angle when this was first announced
Total non-sense.
The fee collapsing the program just proves it turned in a wage cutting, tax sucking blight that privatized gains and socialized losses under the guise of elite talent.
If it is strictly implemented - like an annual licence fee for every H1B, no way any company would spend that extra money, unless they recover the same from the H1B employee. This means H1B usage will drop to less than 10000? This also drives existing H1B employees from US.
Companies who employ these tech workers can easily afford it, it just makes investing in Americans marginally better. Some of these roles will go offshore, but many of the workers see it as a path to a Green Card, they will keep coming for less money.
I think the idea of this is actually quite good, but $100k/year seems quite steep. H1B will still work for top talent at that level, but not all talent.
Lutnick said 100k/year verbally but the text specifies per petition, which would be 33k amortized and much more sane policy
And also, printed in invisible ink, *Subject to Change Without Notice*. Plus the fact that they'll keep coming after more 
just like they've been doing to all their other extortion victims.
just like they've been doing to all their other extortion victims.
Oh to be a fly on the wall of chambers when the Corrupt Gang Of Six tries to rationalize why THIS is not a 'major question' while student loan debt relief was!
If they contribute so massively to the US and by extension, to their companies, don't you think that they would be worth more than $100,000? Companies should be rushing to pay the fee if what you said is true!
US Worker median income is 62K. 5X is 310K. I think it'd be close. At 400K companies would probably say ok. 310K would be a strong maybe.
It's the best thing for actual American workers. If they are so highly skilled an 100,000 a year is peanuts.