Including a $100,000 payment for H-1B visas would have massive penalties throughout immigration, labor markets, and enterprise technique. Smaller employers would virtually solely cease submitting together with outsourcing companies. Even giant tech corporations may sharply cut back numbers, utilizing visas just for extraordinarily scarce roles.
The sort of visa is a piece allow that enables employers to rent international professionals in specialty occupations — suppose tech, engineering, or drugs — that require specialised information and no less than a bachelor’s diploma.
The US points about 85,000 new H-1B visas per 12 months so at most this might increase $8.5 billion however would deprive tech corporations — Nvidia alone is value $4 trillion — of a few of their greatest staff.