US President Donald Trump’s proposal has left the country’s technical sector for starting the application fee of $ 100,000 (€ 85,000) for H -1B foreign activist visa program last Friday (September 19) and Universities Scratching to detect implications.
Announcement came In a so -called announcementClaiming the visa plan, “rather than supplementary, lower-paying, American workers with low-efficient labor have been deliberately exploited” and “systemic misuse of the program has reduced both our economic and national security.”
Since its onset in 1990, the H-1B visa program has been used to provide technical industry with most highly efficient foreign workers. Each year has a limit to the volume of H -1B.
The current border is 65,000 with an additional 20,000 for foreigners, graduates with a master’s degree or higher than an American institution.
“Computer-related” business is currently responsible for almost two-thirds of all of them with visas.
What are the immediate implications for the American economy?
Michael A, Professor of Economics at George Mason University at US State of Virginia. Clamens says the declaration has caused “extreme chaos”, and that many aspects, including its validity, are uncertain.
“People are still finding out that it means an exceptionally hasty and shock policy,” he told DW. “The best interpretation, I think, now we have $ 100,000 by payment that applies to at least a new, initial employer.”
The initial Trump’s statement did not clarify whether the fee would resume a current visa holder America, or if it applies to renewal or existing holders.
Old haf white House Press Secretary Karolin Lewitt has stated that the fee wood may be a one -time application fee, which does not apply to the current holder, they appear on obstacles with Commerce Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, who said that it was implemented annually last week.
Despite the accurate conditions, there is a lot of disappointment on the immediate implications between economists.
Michael a. Clamens says the potential loss of talent would be “tremendous economic loss” to the American economy.
Jeremy Robins, Executive Director of the Nonpartison American Immigration Council, told DW that he hopes to look at large multinational companies that if the plan is implemented, immediately transferred operations to other places.
Robins said, “We are going to dramatically handicap it, which is our ability in important economic and national security industries such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing,” Robins said, “Robins said,” Many talented people who want to come here and innovate for someone else.
Who wants to impress?
Clemens suggests that universities and non -profit organizations are currently responsible for more than one third of the H -1B visa and they would be an ignorant to pay such high fees to hire large -scale essential workers.
This would mean that “a large -scale hit for the capacity of any university, the best and bright testing to the best and bright testing researchers to rent researchers” and “the discovery of any non -governmental organization is forgotten the ability to hire people.”
Other critics have reduced harmful effects Startups And small tech firm.
Startup incubator Wi Combinator’s Chief Executive Gary Tan wrote Messaging platform x This decision “Kneecaps Startup.”
“In the middle of the AI weapons race, we are asking the builders to build elsewhere. We need American Little Tech to win, not $ 100K toll booths,” said Heer.
Clemens agree, saying that for small startups it would be “all but impossible” to hire essential people if they have to pay the search fee. “This wants to destroy their possibilities,” hey said.
Many giant silicon valley companies such as Meta, Google and Amazon are among the largest H -1B users who rely on the program to provide scientists and engineers. Their large -scale revenue means that they can pay fees anyway, but therefore looking for discounts.
Is there any validity for Trump’s claims?
The White House claims that the H -1B system is being misused and deprived American workers.
Jeremy Robins feels that the system needs improvement, indicating that the late 1980s designed and needs to be upgraded to the modern economy, it is noted how the firms are used and from which sectors.
He argues that security for American workers “probably is not where they need to be.”
“That’s why I think some organizations like us are in favor of improving the H -1B system, to make Sura that it is something.
However, he says that even in its “broken situation”, studies continuously prove how many jobs the visa system creates, operates innovation, and dramatically contributes to gross domestic product. ,
Robins believe that American technical activists are “not disappointed with the program” because unemployment among high-skilled American technical workers “is dramatically low, in the last 10, 15 years in 2% range.”
Michael a. Clamens thinks that the misuse of the program is “a reality”, but said that there are a type of rules in place to deal with it.
The US Labor Department “compliance with the rules of the program” often investigates “,” Cleamens said, “It” violates “which is referring to the US President.”
“This is definitely a case to prosecute the law to enforce and violate the law, but the immigrants have nothing to do with it to take the entire class and impose them all for astronomical punishment,” he said.
What are for long periods?
Companies, universities, non -profit institutions and other users of the H -1B visa program attempts to detect the next stages, experts agree that if the Trump Administrator proceeds with an $ 100,000 application fee, it will damage the US economic innovation over the long term.
Clamens argues that the effects of H1B workers have been continuously indicated to a result-profit for the local economy in the decades of “extremely rigid, colleague-reviewed studies”. ,
He said, “Where too much go on, they cause more patterning, they cause more high-development, entrepreneurial capital-supported startup firms and they dynamic local economies,” he said.
And one of America’s “greatest strength” for Jeremy Robins is that country “is a place where talented people all over the world want more,” saying that it would be “a very risky proposal to be threatened.”
Edited by: Uwe Hessler