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It tech talent is stopped they will go back to their home countries build alternate tech stack


It’s not one way street
That’s a good point, Amazon will open more offices in India or Czech Republic or whatever
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Yup most countries will push for Sovereign AI
Bleeding whole Silicon Valley
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Bleeding whole Silicon Valley
I’m not smart enough to figure this part out 😂 but I think a lot of the talent will start concentrating outside of the US which will pull jobs out of the US.
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Yeah it’s Multipolar world unraveling as economic gravity shifting towards east
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This proposal reminds me Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. Not very experienced or smart people making big decisions that ruin a lot of things and searching for people to blame, I’m getting destroyed at the end 🤷‍♂️
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Lol true
World was never same after Covid
Every day it feels more chaotic
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World was never same after Covid
Every day it feels more chaotic
That’s what happens when people without a plan make decisions it’s very reactionary without a particular purpose and I see that all over the world not just the US. Unfortunately

The bottom line is that H1B visa system has been abused for a long time and it needs to fix. This is definitely not a fix because it’s not clear but this fix is actually supposed to do but hopefully something will improve
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Evolution of the Earth's economic center of gravity from 1 CE to 2025
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NY Times has some reporting but they did not bother going deep.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/p ... ticleShare
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I’m putting new B-school apps on hold. The rough path I’d mapped was H-1B → F-1, and if sponsorship dried up, shift to H-4, then back to H-1B later. But for now I’m not changing my current visa status until things are clearer.

Let’s see how things play next few weeks

Silver lining: global opportunities are growing. Local-only hiring sounds good, but if unit economics worsen, customers migrate to lower-cost software. That pushes companies to automate more with AI too save their margins and/or to build teams in India, Europe, or SE Asia
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Just to clarify has this been passed as a rule or are there chances of it getting stonewalled
We won’t know for a while. And likely not until Monday because today’s Friday... it is expected to be challenged and who knows what all come out of this silliness.
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NY Times has some reporting but they did not bother going deep.

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Anyone know how much was this amount earlier?
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> NY Times has some reporting but they did not bother going deep.
> https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/us/p ... ticleShare
Anyone know how much was this amount earlier?
$2000-$5000

The amount is still there, the fee is over and above thay
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The 2k is filing fees plus 3k in premium processing and $5k more in legal fees and supposedly now 100k.
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I really hope the 100000 fee doesn’t fly, the increase in slabs is not so bad for Bschool grads
The higher fee slabs hit international B school candidates. Schools care a lot about employment stats, so rising sponsorship risk + costs push many programs to increase domestic admits and cap international seats—we’re already seeing that trend.

Downstream, even if you get in, career fairs skew to domestic hiring: consulting/IB can meet demand from a larger domestic pool without dealing with visas. When supply ≥ demand, there’s less incentive to sponsor.

Essentially all this are done to discourage to employ immigrants
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