Today would be a great day for the Administration to double down and Congress to pass the No Tax Breaks for Outsourcing Act!
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It used to be $100k/person/year but Trump chickened out and made it a one-time fee. Don't believe me? See the "proclamation" from the "king" himself: https://www.state.gov/h-1b-faq/
@hy my manager in CIP heard rumors that we will be 75% HIH by end of next year.
@hs I heard from few calls that DP is actively pushing all the tech and operations to HIH to save the cost, is it not true?
@h6 HIH is on a trajectory that will seriously undermine the business. The Board of Directors will not allow this to continue unchecked. Once the negative impact on performance becomes undeniable, a decisive shift will be forced to safeguard the organization's stability and future.
@h6 absolutely delusional take when we're in a market where American graduates can't find a job in technology. There's no chance you're a high band 4 in IT without realizing how bad our H1B workforce is unless you're also H1B.
This isn’t going to help. As a high band 4 in IT, every H1B person I’ve worked with has been intelligent, well spoken, and makes shifts to fit into our social and work culture. What will happen is we will lose our H1B staff and those jobs will just go to HIH who can barely speak English, copy and paste code out of AI without understanding what they are doing, and follow none of our social or work cultural norms.
H1B might lower our wages a little bit, but HIH is just outright replacing us with sub-par quality walking security risks. I won’t be celebrating until offshoring is addressed.
@c6 If you feel this way, why do you work for a global company?
Plenty of local/domestic based companies out there that will favor or be biased towards you.
@av You know how high tech works. None of this is a surprise for anyone that has worked in high tech.
H-1B visas are being used to fill even entry level jobs. It undercuts American workers.
I sincerely hope the $100,000 fee strangles the entire H-1B visa scam.
Your statement is factually incorrect. Productivity and work ethic vary by individual, not by visa status or nationality. The H1B program itself creates selection bias, since employers only sponsor candidates with specialized skills after global screening. Comparing this filtered pool to the entire set of U.S. graduates, including weaker ones, is invalid.
Data from the Department of Labor shows H1B hires concentrate in a few high-demand fields like IT and engineering, but that does not mean locals in those fields are less capable. Studies from the National Foundation for American Policy and the Economic Policy Institute also show cases where they are used to suppress wages.
Dismissing graduates from so-called “second tier” universities ignores evidence that many outperform peers in the workplace. Outcomes depend on skills and experience, not on a visa label or university ranking.
Your broad generalizations tell more about your bias than about reality. ;)
@af Not really John; your local talent wont work as hard as foreign workers do, and I assure you most H1Bs are smarter than most graduates from second tier universities. All H1Bs I met in high tech were a lot more talented than most locals. ;)
You still haven’t learned from Taco? I’ll believe it when I see it.
H-1B is a scam! Most of the "talent" can easily be replaced by Americans workers already here. It's used to suppress wages while also exploiting visa holders with constant fears of deportation. This is fantastic news for American workers and terrible news for companies that exploit these visa scams like Cigna!
Before the recent executive order, H-1B visa fees were one-time costs, not annual. Key fees included:
- Registration: $215
- I-129 petition: $780
- Additional (e.g., training, fraud): $750–$1,500 + $500
- Premium processing (optional): ~$2,805
Total initial cost: typically $2,000–$5,000, depending on employer size and options. No per-year fee per employee existed.
Wow. Shares of Infosys and Cognizant dropped sharply on news.