The $100,000 H-1B visa fee is impacting the U.S.'s ability to attract global talent

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Hyderabad, India — The city of Hyderabad has been called the Silicon Valley of India.

"Google, Facebook, and all the other bigger companies are here," Rajesh Jaknalli, who has worked for a U.S. tech company in Hyderabad for about 10 years, told CBS News.

"This place is actually called High Tech City, but because of the many companies that we have, the term 'Cyberabad' has come," Jaknalli explained.

Jaknalli says he has worked here with one goal, to get an opportunity to one day move to the U.S.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/100-000-h-1b-visa-235337123.html

Of course, we could train our own citizens to do these jobs, but the oligarch right feels public education is a waste of money.

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1. There are plenty of unemployed and underemployed tech people in the U.S.

Corporations laid them off because they were "paid too much," in order to hire cheap foreign labor through the H1b program. This has been going on for a couple of decades.

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2. Horse ****.

$100,000 is too steep only if you're abusing the system.

The business interests just want employee's to scared to ask for a week of vacation a year

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3. As long as we have tech companies laying off US workers

to the tune of 30,000 workers at a time here, 20,000 workers at a time there, we don't need to be having H-1Bs in the tech industry. Any company that has mass layoffs should, in fact, have as many current H-1Bs as it holds immediately revoked, equal to the number of US workers they just laid off.

There are too many tech workers in the US who are currently out of work, and the problem is only getting worse because of AI. We don't need any H-1Bs in tech at this point. It's a program that has been exploited for years so that companies can pay non-US workers a fraction of what they would have to pay a US citizen.

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4. One of the few policies from this Misadministration that isn't crazy

H1b is supposed to be for unique talent. But it was heavily abused to have indentured workers. These were trapped in their jobs. Tech employers really liked those with families who would be out on very short notice if the worker in anyway resisted the demands of the employer.

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5. Hard to muster up too much sympathy

Tech unemployment is relatively high now and there are massive disruptions now with AI.

If these folks are as talented as they claim to be, companies like NVIDIA will scoop them up and pay the $100k. If it’s not happening, well maybe the US market doesn’t value them as much, and they can find work in India. The companies laying off workers here are at the same time expanding over there.