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killer company. really fun working on @timwangyc's O-1
got my O-1 🎉
didn’t even have to marry my cofounder
5 years ago I showed up in NYC with a backpack and a camera
now I get to stay to build @PonderStudioAI helping people make movies without spending half a million in film school
big thanks to @sampeiomichi for making the process insanely smooth! Best immigration firm there is
I run an immigration law firm serving Seed - Series C startups.
The $100,000 fee is CLEARLY bad for little tech.
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For those of us on H-1Bs, this hits close to home
@drakerehfeld & @sampeiomichi weigh in on how a $100K fee is pushing founders to rethink hiring in @WSJ
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half of bun’s team is here on visas. it’s already very difficult to find great engineers. please don’t make it harder
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To be clear:
1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It’s a one-time fee that applies only to the petition.
2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter.
H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the country to the same extent as they normally would; whatever ability they have to do that is not impacted by yesterday’s proclamation.
3.) This applies only to new visas, not renewals, and not current visa holders.
It will first apply in the next upcoming lottery cycle.
did the administration think of the downstream effects of $100k h1b fee?
let’s maybe try mapping it out, shall we?
the h1b tightening (or even just the perception that h1b is a dead end) potentially nukes the intl student pipeline. right now intl tuition is a subsidy engine. full freight chinese & indian students bankroll the entire higher ed budget model. if job prospects vanish, that revenue collapses.
if this happens universities cut research budgets, hire fewer postdocs, labs shrink. the us’s comparative advantage in STEM production erodes. rankings slip because rankings are basically a weighted combo of research output, funding, & prestige. that then feeds back into fewer elite applicants, further decline.
then companies that depended on the churn of cheap phd labor for innovation (esp semiconductors, biotech, ai labs) lose a critical feedstock. the us historically imported brains as a growth hack.. killing h1b is essentially self sabotage.
Now’s your chance
Yes, H-1B fraud exists.
IT consultancies that underpay workers and dodge the rules should be reined in. But you don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.
Slapping a $100k tax on every H-1B isn’t “protecting American jobs,” it’s CLEARLY bad for innovation.
.@POTUS signs a Proclamation to restrict the entry of certain H-1B aliens into the U.S. as nonimmigrant workers, requiring a $100,000 payment to accompany or supplement H-1B petitions for new applications.
AMERICA FIRST!
few understand this
Context is king for AI agents. Which means that there’s going to be a huge premium for the individuals, teams, and companies that are able to best design systems to give agents the best context to do their work.
Knowledge work has always been a relatively messy space. If you go into most companies, documentation is often out of date, lots of learnings come just through osmosis internally, and best practices are generally ineffectively shared at scale.
AI agents flip this on its head. The leverage you get from agents is how effectively you can get agents the appropriate data to do their work, with well structured goals, a deep understanding of your workflows, and the practices of your team or company.
Most of this just isn’t written down today or kept up to date. We’re going to see all new levels of emphasis put on documenting everything important about work, and keeping that current in sync across teams.
And this is going to matter more than ever as AI agents scale from being for individual productivity to being for teams or entire companies.
