• MEDIA: Public comments to the proposed increases in US visa fees show s

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Fri Mar 10 11:05:50 2023
    H/T White-Collar Workers of America and their page on Elon Musk's
    website:
    <URL:https://twitter.com/WCWOA/status/1632017133092700160>
    | Public comment period for fees NPRM ends on March 13. Then we will
    | find out if these fee hikes will become official. Importantly, we
    | need to get rid of the ten dollar H-1B raffle drawing fee. This fee
    | is so low it encourages multiple filing abuse.
    | https://t.co/dQWjVzqIj0

    see Quartz' Ananya Bhattacharya on whether Donald Trump regrets
    tasking Lee Cissna to lower the fees of the H-1B scab worker import
    quota lottery without converting it to a wage ordered queue: <URL:https://qz.com/us-visa-fee-increase-uscis-public-comment-criticism-1850183222>
    | According to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), that was due
    | to a "technical issue" preventing comments from being posted for
    | almost 24 hours around Feb. 14. However, other reports suggest that
    | policymakers may be buying a little more time to garner positive
    | responses after amassing a barrage of negative ones. A cursory
    | glance of the more than 4,000 comments submitted reveals people are
    | taking issue with the proposed hike for myriad reasons.

    Does Susie Wiles worry that Ken Griffin and Lachlan Murdoch will
    allow Ron DeSantis to use their campaign bullhorn to urge legacy
    American proles to flood Alejandro Mayorkas and Ur M Jaddou DHS.GOV
    website to raise the fees to import scab workers?

    John
    groenveld@acm.org
    --
    "The FBI focusing on pillow man Mike Lindell and other Trump allies
    instead of the massive amounts of human trafficking and drug
    smuggling coming from our southern border is shameful. #Defund" -
    Paul Gosar
    <URL:https://twitter.com/RepGosar/status/1570476738853085184>

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