The first HN thread on the H1-B $100k fee pointed out that the $100k fee can be waived by the secretary (not sure which department). Most likely, H1-Bs won’t go

The first HN thread on the H1-B $100k fee pointed out that the $100k fee can be waived by the secretary (not sure which department). Most likely, H1-Bs won’t go away, they will just be bribe bait for the administration. Smaller companies who can’t lobby the admin or who aren’t in the good graces of the administration will have to do without H1-Bs, but all those tech titans who donated to the Trump Inauguration will magically get waivers for the fee. It won’t be a matter of “outsource to India or hire locally”, it will be “what is the ROI of the bribe compared to having to hire locally when the labor market gets tighter?”