Senate raises H-1B fees to fund border security

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Source: Computerworld

The U.S. Senate approved a large H-1B fee increase Thursday to help offset a $600 million "emergency package" to improve security along the Mexican border.

The fee increases, which also affect the L-1 visa, will help pay for 1,000 new border patrol agents and drones, or unmanned aircraft, as well as long list of agencies, including prisons.

The Senate measure increases the H-1B visa application fees by $2,000 per application on those firms that have 50% of their employees on this visa.

The fee increase will have the biggest impact on the large Indian offshore firms, such as Infosys Technologies Ltd., Wipro Ltd. and Tata Consultancy Services, which use thousands of H-1B visa holders to service U.S. customers.

... The legislation, introduced by U.S. Sens. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and some other Democrats, passed by unanimous consent.

Read more: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9180240/Senate_raises_H_1B_fees_to_fund_border_security

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1. I'd jack it up to $1,000,000 per application

They want to bring people over here, they can goddamn well pay for it then.