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2026-06-08 22:14 UTC

It’s a 3yr visa and a $100k application fee. So yeah, if you’re paying someone $50k/yr under market value, that’s a savings of $50k (as opposed to the $150k savings it was without the fee). I agree it might not kill the program outright, but it shouldn’t. The actual stated intent of the program is good. But it would curb abuse somewhat, as it takes away a huge portion of the proposed savings.

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@ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2026-06-08 23:46

Sure, in theory. But they’re not pulling people over here for a year or two. They’re getting them over here for several years, and every year they keep them on is another $50k saved. But on the other end, you have small businesses who need specialized labor that’s not available in the US. Or family businesses who want to bring other family members from out of the country and hire them to work for their little mom-and-pop shop, to further help bring their family out of poverty. Neither were likely to hire anyone local to do the job, and the $100k might be everything the business earns in a year after expenses. So the $100k fee does nothing to curb the onshoring of cheap labor by big companies who are causing the problem you want to solve, but it completely kills the ability of people in developing nations or people here who are trying to do right by their community to hire anyone who doesn’t already have the right to work in the US.

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