Did anyone see the writing on the wall? This is an obvious ban on foreign high skill labor: what employer will pay 100k upfront cost?

The cost is not even close to cover the wage difference (20-30%): https://www.epi.org/publication/h-1b-visas-and-prevailing-wa...

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glenngillen 3 days ago | parent [-]

Admittedly my frame of reference here is now a decade ago when I was living in California. But we would routinely hire people on H1B, and it most definitely wasn't because we thought it was a cost saving. Between the >=$20K in legal fees, similar budget for relocation expenses to bring someone into the country, and having to pay them as a foreign contractor for anything up to 10 months while we wait for the applications to re-open for the year. And then pay them the same as any local talent we hand on the team.

Hiring local people was preferable in every way. But the market was hot and it was seemingly almost impossible to actually do that.

	▲	shiftleft 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I'm in the UK and can relate to this view strongly. As a software developer myself looking for hires there simply isn't the talent, especially in the North East of England so we have to cast our net further and accept applications from abroad.