$100K fee added to H1B applications

Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by mlrtime on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:13AM (#45310292)

"Computer science ranked seventh amongst undergraduate majors with the highest unemployment at 6.1 percent, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of New York."

https://www.newsweek.com/computer-science-popular-college-ma...

Obviously there is not going to be a drop of 200k overnight, but I think the graduates of CS will be thankful there are more opportunities for them. These opportunities will drive more students to take CS classes in the US.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by jiscariot on Saturday September 20, 2025 @07:50AM (#45312518)

I wonder what effect the US's heavy reliance on HB1 visas (and off-shoring more broadly) has had on the size of the cohorts graduating with CS degrees.

All I have is anecdotal conversations of people avoiding tech under the assumption that writing code would be off-shored.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by jameshart on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:21PM (#45314687)

Well, historically a significant portion of the graduating cohort in top CS programs in the US has been overseas students.

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Re:$100K fee added to H1B applications by jameshart on Saturday September 20, 2025 @12:24PM (#45314717)

This reflects that there are just less openings overall. In a shrinking job market layoffs have already disproportionately gone to H1B holders; future layoffs, if this policy is implemented, will further erode H1B numbers, but it won’t magic up more domestic engineering job openings.

You know what would provide job growth in high tech? Economic growth and expanding prosperity in the economy overall.

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