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Trump just screwed the weekend for a whole bunch of corporations [1]
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Date: 2025-09-20
Let’s pose a hypothetical. Let’s pretend it’s Friday. You’re the CEO of a large US corporation with thousands of employees. You may or may not have employees here on an H-1B visa. Heck, you don’t know, that’s HR’s job right? You may have some, though. If you’re in tech, yes, you know you do. But other big corporations? Maybe, maybe not. You’re not thinking about it, certainly not on a Friday afternoon.
It’s still Friday, and out of the blue, the President of the U.S. imposes a fee of $100,000 for any of your H - 1B employees returning to the U.S. If the fee is not paid, that employee is stranded. As noted in India Today:
The rules are clear – enter the US before 12.01 am EDT (9.31 am IST) on September 21. After that, no H-1B worker will be allowed to enter the US unless the sponsoring employer pays the $100,000 fee.
So you have until noon Sunday to get those employees back into the country. But first you have to find out how many, who they are, and where they are.
You call your HR department head. What if he or she is out? On vacation? Or on PTO? Now what do you do?
You have until noon Sunday not only to determine who is affected, but to contact every single one of them and get them on a plane. Oh, it has to be run by legal. And the CIO. Where are they, by the way?
Major companies such as Meta and Microsoft went into a huddle on Saturday morning and urged all their H-1B visa holders to not leave the US, at least for at least 14 days, after President Donald Trump launched a fresh crackdown on immigrants and imposed limitations on legal immigration. According to internal mails accessed by NDTV Profit, the companies also urged their employees, who are currently residing outside the US, to return to the country within 24 hours to avoid denial of re-entry.
But it isn’t just Meta and Microsoft. It’s anyone who may (or may not—who knows?) have an employee on such a visa.
Happy?
WTF. Seriously, WTF.
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