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Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by ForHackernews on Thursday October 08, 2026 @12:19PM (#50007743)
Ok, but those people aren't H1B's. They were on O-1 visas.

These body shop firms are not hiring world-leading geniuses, they are getting mostly-okay Java devs who will do boring scutwork for the chance at life in America.

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Re:US Suspends Visa Program for Tech Firms Including Microsoft by budman1 on Thursday October 08, 2026 @01:02PM (#50008480)
O-1 is a strictly regulated visa. Limited to Nobel Prize winners, Influencers, and Underwear models.

H1B is for cheap java devs.

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