The H1-B Worker Visa and Me

The immigration pathway that brought me into America is now effectively closed, with a legally-dubious $100K fee added by the Trump administration.

This one feels personal.

This week, the pathway I used to enter America was slammed shut by Donald Trump, who announced a $100K fee on new H1-B visa applicants.

I’ve always had an immigrant’s love for America, the sort of idealism you might only adopt if you weren’t from a place, but sought later in life to belong there.

Call it naive, but I’ve always felt that this was a country that I fought hard to join, and dammit, I was going to make sure America lived up to its ideals.

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After the paywall:
-Tim’s immigration story, and how he entered the United States on an H1-B
-The doubtful legal authority Trump had to make this unilateral change
-What this change in immigration policy means for the future of America