You could raise $90 billion for reconciliation if you did an age-adjusted compensation ranking. Meanwhile, USG itself admits the $100k H-1B fee loses them money.
The $100k H-1B entry fee was just declared unlawful and vacated by a federal judge.
This has huge implications for the effects of the new Weighted Lottery.
While the fee was in place, it only applied to people outside the country, which meant student retention was up since it didn’t apply to them.
Without the $100k fee, the outsourcers will come flooding back into the H1B program, helped by the new Weighted Lottery.
That’s because the weighted lottery rewards seniority within an occupation (which the outsourcers do well at) but not higher salaries.
DHS needs to move to a compensation-based system before next year’s lottery to stop this from happening.