A major Silicon Valley medtech company just announced it was pausing H-1B hires

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Intuitive Surgical Gary Guthart
Gary Guthart

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Box CEO says there are 6 things a successful H-1B policy should have

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Box CEO Aaron Levie said a good H-1B policy should positively affect wages and remain economically viable for startups.

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After an initial panic, Silicon Valley looks beyond the H1-B

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Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch
Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch

Vercel

I'm an Amazon software engineer who wasn't selected for the H-1B visa. I was obsessed with staying in the US‚ but not anymore.

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Wen-Hsing Huang is a software development engineer at Amazon from Taiwan. He explained why the changes to the H-1B visa program don't stress him out.

Wen-Hsing Huang

Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa adds more pressure to consulting's growing recruitment woes

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JPMorgan economists predict the H-1B visa's new $100,000 fee could cut 5,500 work authorizations per month

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President Donald Trump, accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, speaks after signing an executive order imposing a $100,000 fee on H1B visas in the Oval Office at the White House.
President Donald Trump, accompanied by Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, speaks after signing an executive order imposing a $100,000 fee on H1B visas in the Oval Office at the White House.

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Netflix cofounder Reed Hastings is a fan of Trump's $100,000 H-1B plan, and says it will ensure visas only go to 'very high value jobs'

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Netflix cofounder and chairman Reed Hastings walks to a morning session at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho on July 10, 2025.
Reed Hastings said Trump's $100K H-1B fee is a "great solution" that would reserve visas for high-value jobs.

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4 tech and business leaders who got their start on an H-1B visa

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President Donald Trump signs executive order on Friday, September 19, 2025.
President Donald Trump introduced a significant fee on Friday to obtain an H-1B visa, which is meant for foreign skilled workers.

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The H-1B visa changes highlight another lesser-known immigration ticket: the 'Einstein' visa

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Despite Donald Trump's executive order raising the cost of the H-1B visa, a potential side door for qualified applicants exists: the O-1 or "Einstein" visa.

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What is an H-1B visa? Everything you need to know about the skilled foreign worker program.

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President Donald Trump signed an executive order making changes to the H-1B program.

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