President Donald Trump signed an executive action on Friday to impose a $100,000 application fee for H-1B visas — in an effort to curb what the administration says is overuse of the program.
The funny part is, this means anyone coming in is all but guaranteed to be paid less than an American to do the same job, because the company is likely to consider that 100k part of the employees compensation.
Not if the program is enforced at all. Ideally, that enforcement would given appropriate attention, along with slapping tariffs on outsourcing services.
Not that I expect Taco to really have much follow-through or give this much of a thought after the photo-op of signing the EO…
The funny part is, this means anyone coming in is all but guaranteed to be paid less than an American to do the same job, because the company is likely to consider that 100k part of the employees compensation.
Not if the program is enforced at all. Ideally, that enforcement would given appropriate attention, along with slapping tariffs on outsourcing services.
Not that I expect Taco to really have much follow-through or give this much of a thought after the photo-op of signing the EO…
I would not be surprised if the agency that has to enforce this was caught by surprise just like anyone.