The topic of the week, H-1B visas are being overhauled. The Trump administration announced a new $100,000 fee for all future H1B applications. It's a onetime fee.This is a huge jump. The current fee is nothing. It's like 2 to 5K.Every discussion I've ever had about H-1Bs in relation to IT and consulting has always been about saving money. It's a giant scam on the bottom half of these. I witnessed it firsthand.When I was in IT in the early 90s, the abuse was happening all the time and it was indentured servi ...

Imagine paying $100,000 on top of an annual salary just to hire one worker because that is the new fee Trump has added to the H-1B visas. This came in an executive order on September 19th. This will ensure that the people they're bringing in are actually very highly skilled and that they're not replaceable by American workers.Before Trump added his new $100,000 fee, H-1B visas were anywhere from 1,700 to $5,000. That's an almost 2,000% increase. H-1B visas help American companies hire highly skilled foreign ...

Colleges across the US apply for thousands of H-1B visas annually to hire researchers and academic staff https://t.co/IdXv2kS47V ...

The $100,000 fee for H-1B visas will be a headache for tech firms. It could also accelerate the shift to expand operations overseas https://t.co/xiqT9Mo7mm ...

Exclusive: U.S. companies are facing heightened scrutiny from Capitol Hill over their use of foreign employees on H-1B visas, with lawmakers raising concerns about layoffs and Americans’ slumping job prospects https://t.co/iWbvmswQ8r ...

From @WSJopinion: Failing schools are why we need H-1B visas. The Trump administration risks losing American companies by making it costly to hire foreigners, writes @jasonrileywsj. https://t.co/1ZEOeLJmbR ...

Donald Trump has proposed a charge of $100,000 on new applications for H-1B visas, a favourite of technology firms hiring foreign graduates. The announcement has been most keenly felt in India https://t.co/kR4AOlw8qY ...

US President Donald Trump’s plan to slap a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas is just one more reason to look for outperformance from India’s domestically exposed stocks, which are less vulnerable to the America First agenda https://t.co/7KwTH8u8vA ...

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We've been hearing from business leaders, as you just heard there this week, on the president's move to increase the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000 per year. For more on the impact to the tech sector and startups, let's bring in Lar Hippo, managing director, Eric Hippo, thank you so much for being with us. I mean, I think many many in this conversation are are thinking about the smaller players, but obviously innovation comes from all sorts of places, small players, big players, and if they're unable to pay ...