$100K fee added to H1B applications

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by rcpt on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:04PM (#45309897)

I am an American-born worker at a giant tech corporation. My coworkers are all immigrants, my job was created by immigrants, if they left I'd be unemployed because there's no way I can build this whole thing by myself. The work would simply disappear without them.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by Evanmerc on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:12AM (#45310291)

If the value of your role depends on importing labor to maintain it, then you’re not essential.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by CyanLite2 on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:21PM (#45310024)

Your employer would just hire local talent at a $100k discount. Problem solved.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by rcpt on Friday September 19, 2025 @11:46PM (#45310160)

We are already trying to hire local talent. It is not as simple as you think.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by gnulinux996 on Saturday September 20, 2025 @08:16PM (#45318856)

> The work would simply disappear without them.

I think you underestimate the capabilities of the American worker, after all, they have created the circumstances in which your company surrounds itself and succeeds.

If your job cannot exist without an endless stream of underpaid, overworked Third word country immigrants then you don't have a job, you have a mill.

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