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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by trollbridge on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:02PM (#45307239)
A PhD holder should be coming in under O-1.
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by whatever1 on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:04PM (#45307268)
A PhD comes as a student with F1 student visa that expires the day of their graduation.

O1 is unlikely to be granted to a student who has not graduated yet. What are they going to show for evidence? Manuscripts in preparation? Or class grades?

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by bigfatkitten on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:25PM (#45307473)
How many businesses have ever found a fresh graduate to be provably essential?
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by whatever1 on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:32PM (#45307530)
Name one person who is provably essential to a company.
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by tester756 on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:55PM (#45308242)
Jensen Huang
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by whatever1 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @02:21AM (#45310936)
Nvidia will continue to exist even if JH disappears today.

All companies of that size have succession plans. See Apple and Alibaba.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by bigfatkitten on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:51PM (#45307698)
That’s my point. The problem you’ve raised doesn’t really exist.
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by whatever1 on Friday September 19, 2025 @07:00PM (#45307783)
:facepalm:
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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by stale2002 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @02:46AM (#45311045)
> What are they going to show for evidence?

I guess they wouldn't have much to show for evidence. Which is exactly why they would be correctly classified as not being a specialist, and therefore undeserving on an O-1 visa.

These visas are not meant to allow company to hire underpaid employees that quite literally just graduated.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by whatever1 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @06:24AM (#45312037)
A company conducts a technical interview to assess a candidate. Their public record is not their only criterion of hiring. USCIS relies exclusively on public record (and maybe recommendation letters)
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