nixCraft 🐧Sep 19, 2025
Damn. A fee of $100,000 has been added to H-1B visa applications for tech including all other companies/sectors, especially those in Silicon Valley, which use the program most frequently. https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/trump-mulls-adding-new-100000-fee-h-1b-visas-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-09-19/
Show threadAshwin DixitSep 19, 2025

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Great news for American programmers!
Thanks to this "free market" policy, now they won't have to compete with cheap Indian programmers.

Show threadNathan A. StineSep 19, 2025
@purrperl @nixCraft I think it is more likely that companies will hire Indian devs in India rather than bother with the H1-B.
Show threadbluememonSep 19, 2025
@stinerman @purrperl @nixCraft agree this will only promote more offshore contractors, for tech companies is not that bad, way cheaper resources and you can skip labor laws
Show threadbluememonSep 19, 2025
@stinerman @purrperl @nixCraft and don’t mean this as a good thing, more like the perfect excuse, the company I work for stopped hiring american based engineers two years ago
Show threadNathan A. Stine
@bluememon @purrperl @nixCraft mine just opened a subsidiary in Pune. We still hire stateside though.
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