Doesn't fix the offshore problem, but this is a start!
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/08/25/2026-17324/fee-for-certain-h-1b-petitions
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@66z it's time to follow up with them! 🙌🏼
@668 when they laid me off and replaced me with a squadron of people in India I pinged trump vance and my state reps and attorney general about it with facts. I have recordings of all my calls too and documented hr in my favor. But no one ever reached out to me.
@5ta It won't hit MetLife until or unless someone high notices that MetLife is doing this too. But, it's real enough India is protesting: https://www.deccanchronicle.com/business/india-slams-us-green-card-suspension-for-it-firms-blasts-vances-indentured-servants-remark-1994429
Vance didn't mention Indians, did he?
@5s8 yup yup already seeing the deportations in our IT!
Trump Admin Cracks Down On Foreign Worker Fraud: Bans MSFT From H1-B Program, Probes 9 Colleges Over J-1 Visas, Hikes Costs For Students
“If you do the math, for every worker that Microsoft laid off, they replaced that worker with one and a half foreign indentured servants,” said Vice President JD Vance in a White House news conference announcing the decision.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/dhs-proposes-70000-fee-foreign-students-work-us
Guessing the bill never gets traction due to insurance lobby groups.
One of the million reasons I will never give a penny to the MetLife PAC, no matter how many times they beg me to in those emails.
Get the smellies out of this country already! Can't understand a damn word they say. Lazy too.
@ds there was a bill introduced too last year by a senator from Ohio that would eliminate the tax deductions for outsourcing to India and fining the companies the difference in salaries between onshore American workers and off shore. Specifically targeting the insurance industry as tons of insurance companies are based in Ohio. This would cripple met and their current strategy. Guessing the bill never gets traction due to insurance lobby groups.
Add that $100k charge, and all the sudden US employers will be able to find qualified US citizens that they "couldn't find" before.
The other part of it is that H1B's become almost indentured servants of the employer due to the requirement to have the job or leave the country. Gives employers way too much power.