| ▲ | pavlov 9 hours ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Have you ever worked for a large corporation? Do you think there’s an intranet website where you can just go click on the “Send $100k Wire Now” button? It’s going to take a long time while Microsoft figures out if they will actually pay these fees and which budget it should come out of. Meanwhile, if you didn’t return by Sunday, you’re locked out of the country and unable to show up for work which will result in your termination fairly soon. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | trollbridge 9 hours ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Employers have said these workers are critical and they can’t find any workers already in America to do these roles. FAANG are by far the largest users of H1-B. They also have billions of dollars and access to excellent lawyers. They can pay up for this; an excellent employee is certainly worth more than $100k per year to them. Think of this more as a tax levied on some of America’s wealthiest businesses. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | ericmay 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Meanwhile, if you didn’t return by Sunday, you’re locked out of the country and unable to show up for work which will result in your termination fairly soon. I’m actually curious, have you worked at a large corporation before? It would be atypical for the scenario you are describing to occur given that there has been a US government policy change that’s of no fault of the employee who is still eligible to work in the United States. Folks aren’t going to be sitting around on Monday morning saying jeez Billy on the H1B visa didn’t show up to work today and we have no clue why, guess he is fired! Within business units at this scale there are small, dedicated teams that manage contractors, vendor contracts and licenses, keep track of employees on visas, report that information for compliance purposes, etc, and they are almost certainly communicating with their employees who are currently out of the country to provide arrangements and additional details as things progress. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▲ | teeray 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
> Meanwhile, if you didn’t return by Sunday, you’re locked out of the country and unable to show up for work which will result in your termination fairly soon. Remember too that this coincides with an RTO order for Puget Sound that kicks in roughly the same time. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||