[pjdemers]

It will never last. There is a 0% chance even one company or person will ever pay this fee. Only an act of congress can change visa requirements, and it will never come up for a full floor vote. Ever. So it will be in legal limbo, and therefore can be ignored.

[silverquiet]

Only congress can enact tariffs, but we're all paying them anyway.

[_diyar]

I think it's not quite tree due to the Reciprocal Tariff Act. Depends on how you define reciprocal of course.

Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Tariff_Act

[llm_nerd]

>There is a 0% chance even one company or person will ever pay this fee

All through Trump's second term, and before, people have said things precisely like this. And here we are. At some point we realize that people just make such confident pronouncements because they think it bends reality towards their hopes.

>Only an act of congress can change visa requirements

It isn't a visa requirement. It's a processing fee. As of midnight no H1B will be considered without the fee. It is very real, and it is absolutely going into effect. Now places like Microsoft are panicking in the information gap currently, but the admin has clarified that it only applies to new H1B applicants.

As to the legal limbo, not only won't there be one, the Supreme Court has rubber stamped just about everything this admin has done.

The guy has both houses of congress, the courts, the DOJ, the full apparatus of government...at this point I find it simply amazing that people still dismiss the reality that he basically does whatever he wants.

[yibg]

Has the administration officially confirmed this applies to new applicants only? All the reporting I’ve seen on this are from unnamed officials.

[kg]

This is why the new 100k policy allows the government the discretion to exempt their friends from the fee. Want H1Bs? Bend the knee.