Re: "Starter Villain" by John Scalzi

Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 5/10/2025 11:14 AM, Scott Dorsey wrote:

Cryptoengineer  <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:

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My solution, ironically, is tariffs. If there was a $50,000/year tariff
for each H1B brought in, companies would only bring in the actual 'best
of the best'.

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This is true, but what about universities which may not have such
budgets?  I am thinking perhaps most of the people who really deserve
H1-B visas would be employed in academia or research.  But the idea
is not an unworkable one.\

 I wasn't really aware that researchers were using H1Bs. I thought there
was some kind of academic researcher visa.

When I came to the US to work at NASA I had a J visa, which also sufficed when I moved to a university. J visas were limited to seven years after which holders were supposed to go back to their home countries, though many got exemptions and did not. When I switched to the private sector, though, I was told I needed an H1 visa - though I actually worked under a TN visa as I was denied the H1.
The only H1 visa holder at our company got full pay, but this was before the current H1B wave.
William Hyde