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Startup leaders warn new $100K H-1B visa fee will hurt U.S. entrepreneurship and innovation
['Taylor Soper']
GeekWire
Longtime entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are sounding the alarm over President Trump’s new H-1B fee that would impact tech companies and the workers they hire from abroad.
“Now we’re making H-1B sponsorship prohibitively expensive, cities outside the U.S., like Toronto, Vancouver, and London will pick up the talent,” Manny Medina, co-founder of Seattle startup Outreach, wrote on LinkedIn.
“To my founder friends stuck in visa limbo: London’s doors are open,” he wrote in his post.
Xiao Wang, CEO of Seattle immigration startup Boundless, said the policy would be a “blow to H-1B” and could hurt the country’s competitiveness.
3, respectively, for H-1B visa approvals issued to employees this year.
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