Yeah no joke. STEM research is already ~50% (usually more) foreign; I don’t have the numbers but I would wager that there are more academic H1Bs than industry ones (since academic has no cap) and they are the main victims of this policy
Even before Trump I’ve heard anecdotes of ppl fighting tooth and nails with their uni/institute for H1B sponsorship because it would cost the employers a few thousand extra per year. This ends up with a lot of international postdocs on the highly temporary and sometimes predatory J1/OPT statuses… Slapping a $100k fee on H1B would just kill the field lol. Not that this administration cares about STEM to begin with
Speaking of which… I was the one warning my colleagues that Trump would come for the H1Bs and no one listened. Guess I was right after all…
Yeah no joke. STEM research is already ~50% (usually more) foreign; I don’t have the numbers but I would wager that there are more academic H1Bs than industry ones (since academic has no cap) and they are the main victims of this policy
Even before Trump I’ve heard anecdotes of ppl fighting tooth and nails with their uni/institute for H1B sponsorship because it would cost the employers a few thousand extra per year. This ends up with a lot of international postdocs on the highly temporary and sometimes predatory J1/OPT statuses… Slapping a $100k fee on H1B would just kill the field lol. Not that this administration cares about STEM to begin with
Speaking of which… I was the one warning my colleagues that Trump would come for the H1Bs and no one listened. Guess I was right after all…