Yeah, but it sucks pro max for F1 now, especially those who will be part of lottery next time.

They will revisit as this is still a proclamation.

1. 100k if you bring someone from outside US so basically stops fake consultancies but WITCH and MAANG companies can still use L1B or L1A. But L1 is going to be so restricted.
2. They will set higher wage levels essentially blocking F1s to get H1. Higher wage levels will affect everyone on H1B but entry level jobs won’t qualify for H1.

Yeah I thought the same They have increased job security now

I guess that the administration got a message that this is not an area that they can mess with.

Look at the urgency of clarification by a senior representative. And the clarification also negates most of what the EO aimed to achieve in the first place. 

My expectation is this EO will be phased out in a non obvious manner to avoid embarrassment. 

That’s so accurate!

Yes sir, You spoke, we listened. Fixed it. :) Did it in hurry from phone, you can re-check

So it’s a one-time tariff on American employer which they can factor in salaries for the next 3 years?

The 100k can be waived for a company or an individual at the discretion of the department - i.e donate to Trump for exemptions

100k one time? That's nothing in the long run.

Wish it was for existing also

There is always some clarification after a rash decision

Tech jobs moving to Ireland and Canada

I haven’t read the details past the bright-shiny headline, but this policy would apply to all current H1-B visa holders and not just new ones? If so, I would imagine visa workers for smaller companies will probably get screwed.

Being in the US is just a location... if I was one of these companies, I'd simply let the employee choose which of any other country they want to live in and pay taxes to, and let them work from there. Hell, probably treat it as outsourcing and just pay less if they can get away with it. If you want people in office, simply start a division in that country and send them all there. Why collect more tax money, grow our talent pool, and integrate people into our culture and way of doing things, when you can just outsource?

This is a windfall for India-based companies that provide developers and admin functions in-house in India. No one is importing workers to the U.S., so they contract with Indian contractor firms.

H1B is the secret sauce that allows and promotes extensive knowledge work outsourcing to India. Look at the top H1B companies. Outside of big tech, most are either Indian or US consulting companies that do not make products. The typical H1B and L1 employee for these consulting companies (Cognizant, Tata, InfoSys, Capgemini, Accenture, E&Y) is fluent in English and leads outsourced Indian teams. Each of these companies have hundreds of thousands of knowledge workers. Tata has > 600k employes. Cognizant and Infosys both have > 300k. Most of them are in India, with the H1B and L1 workers as the US-based interface to those overseas teams.

Without these big consulting firms that gobble up H1Bs, it becomes much harder to work with outsourced Indian teams. You have to do the work of vetting the team and deal with timezone, language and cultural challenges instead of hiring a consulting firm to do it for you.

Not necessarily. The way it works is you start out working for Tata in India and then once the company you're contracting with wants someone from Tata managing teams stateside they're brought over on H1B. H1B makes offshoring less risky as if you feel the tech is getting opaque and you feel too dependent on foreign contractors you can bring them inhouse.

yep. us corps love young indians cos they know the indians will grind nonstop for shit pay

I would be interested to k ow what moving a job to Dubai achieves as it’s a very expensive place to operate people from. Yea, Corp tax is low but having people work in Dubai is very expensive.

And domestic talent

and the UK

Do tech companies even need workers to come to the US anymore? Can't they simply work from online. 

Check what they say on their respective sites as the final say. 

Do you happen to have any information on new grad positions?

In my line of work, working in chemical laboratories for Oil and Gas, it's about 90 to 95% nepitism, as it's usually children of managers or directors or their friends' children that get hired. However, the hiring managers start looking in January and February for the odd summer student outside of nepitism. This is for companies in Oil & Gas Service companies and Oil & Gas Chemical suppliers / manufacturers. This is my experience having worked for 4 of them. Most will have the summer student come back each summer until they are done school and then offer a job. My experience though is that half of them (nepitism students) aren't even going to school for relevant degrees.

is this just for the summer or are there any winter term opportunity starting January? I am currently a 3rd year full-time student but I have a lighter course load in the winter and was looking for a student / co-op internship job for winter term. I have work experience at the Federal government.

If you want to work for O&G why get an anthropology degree?

Okay, i see this has been answered before, "we dont offer j1" means that they wont accept the ECFMG sponsored one.

I think even if the ECFMG sponsors the visa, the program still has to pay a fee. On top of it there is the hassle of hiring someone who requires a visa (start late, lose the visa along the way, etc).

Because of all those factors, some programs do not sponsor visas. So if you apply there, most likely they won't consider you.

Although everything is possible tbh. I know someone who lied in their application, matched in a program that do not sponsor visas, and then that person worked with his PD to get the visa sponsored by the ECFMG. It was crazy and we all thought they were going to drop him, but in the end he got it.

Clear answer is yes. You always say yes to visa question. Why? Simple: You want the interview first. It is more difficult to say no after liking a candidate.

You do need a visa. Don’t lie. It has so many consequences you may not realize.

Well honestly you don't have a visa, and there is no guarantee you will get one so probably a sponsorship visa is what your wanting. Employers are going to ask for details and share codes to progress the application, better being up front with them

the clear and obvious answer is NO.

I subscribed to a visa focused site a month ago, applied consistently, and got replies fairly quickly, already had interviews and now accepted an offer, now moving to the US soon.

I actually landed my present job with the help of Migrate Mate. I noticed one of their posts on Instagram and thought I'd try it. I applied for a lot of jobs advertised with them and also contacted the people whose numbers they gave me. Took around 7 weeks of regular effort but I eventually got an offer, and now I'm working on the visa.

Are you currently in the US, what is your background and skills

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Been on migrate mate for a few months, I wouldn't say it was instant, but I've had several interviews come through and I'm in the last rounds now for one position, what impressed me was that the founder himself stepped in to assist with som recruiter calls regarding visa sponsorship, which was pleasantly unexpected lol

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