No - the initial reporting accurately reflected what was in the proclamation. The proclamation did not exclude people already on H1B visas. That's why Microsoft and other huge companies were telling their employees not to leave the US or to get back to the US within 24 hours. This is the administration doing cleanup because they either screwed up drafting the proclamation, or they got so much pushback that they had to backtrack.

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Izikiel43 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes, that’s the weird thing, they could have specified this in the proclamation that it only applies for next years lottery starting March next year, or uscis could have changed the fees to charge the money for new petitions, which happens next year.

They did neither.

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apical_dendrite 13 hours ago | parent [-]

It's extremely typical of this administration to move fast and do very sloppy work, with very little consideration of the consequences of their actions. There are many examples. DOGE repeatedly fired and then had to scramble to re-hire people either because they didn't realize that they were firing people who did critical jobs (security for transporting nuclear materials for instance) or because they just blatantly broke the law and the courts issued injunctions.

	▲	sumedh 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> It's extremely typical of this administration to move fast and do very sloppy work Isnt that Silicon Valley's mantra.