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🧵 Exposed: The "H-1B visa to B-2 visa Pivot." How a massive immigration loophole allows laid-off H-1B workers to stay in the U.S. indefinitely while avoiding a $100k fee. 📉🇺🇸 1/ The Loophole starts: ⏳ When an H-1B worker is laid off, they have a 60-day grace period to find another job or leave the country. Instead of leaving, many file to change status to a B-2 "visitor" visa—a tactical move to freeze their departure clock. 2/ The "Tourist" Mask: 🎭 Under the B-2, they get up to 6 months (on top of the 2-month grace period for H-1B visa holder) to "tour" while actually aggressively job hunting. While they can't work, they are permitted to interview, allowing them to maintain a local presence that American tech companies favor. They also utilize this time to learn new skills or technologies that be embellished with fake experience on their resumes. 3/ Avoiding the $100k Tariff: 💰 This move is a massive financial dodge. A Sept 2025 Presidential Proclamation hit new H-1B entries with a $100,000 "tariff on imported labor"; however, because the B-2 flip is an in-country "Change of Status" (COS), it is explicitly exempt from the fee. 4/ The "Flip": 🔄 Once a new sponsor is found, the employer files an H-1B transfer via COS. USCIS approves this as an internal adjustment, allowing the worker to return to H-1B status without ever leaving the country or undergoing consular processing abroad. 5/ Backup of backup: 🎓 If these former H-1B visa holders are still unable to land a job after 8 months, they then apply to shady universities or Day 1 CPT schools (with a 100% acceptance rate) to secure a F1 visa, while continuing to stay in the US. The key point being that a lot of these folks are not leaving the country and are continuing to clog the labor markets. Meanwhile... 6/ US Tech Grads sidelined: 🎓 While foreign workers use "visa flips" to linger indefinitely, American talent is struggling. Computer Science (CS) grads face ~6.1% unemployment, while Computer Engineering hits 7.5%—rates far higher than the overall national average. 7/ Entry-level crisis: 🤖 Entry-level roles are evaporating due to AI automation and hiring freezes. Thousands of talented U.S. graduates are applying to hundreds of jobs with zero offers, while visa-flippers snap up remaining openings. 8/ Follow the Money: 🏦 Why is this allowed? USCIS may be "addicted" to the revenue. The sources suggest they collect $2,805+ per filing for premium processing on these endless transfers and extensions, and closing loopholes could dry up that cash flow. Due to widespread fear and uncertainty within the immigration circles, I believe that most visa applications are being filed under the 'Premium Processing' category. 9/ The Fix: 🛠️ Policy reform is overdue: ✅ Require consular processing abroad for post-layoff H-1B reactivation to trigger the $100k fee at the end of the 60-day grace period. ✅ End the cycle of B-2 extensions for job hunting. ✅ Prioritize American graduates. It is time to close the side door and protect the U.S. tech workforce. 🇺🇸🛡️ #H1BAbuse #TechJobs #AmericaFirst #H1B #F1 #OPT @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @marcorubio @USDOL

@Geiger_Capital All of these rich folks voted for this. Play stupid games, win stupid prizes

The top 1% of New Yorkers already pay for 46% of all income taxes collected... The bottom 50%, pay absolutely nothing.

Awesome detective work. I would encourage you to take this to the next level. For even the folks with legit diplomas and degrees, I would scrutinize their stated work experience. It's very common for some of these folks to undergo a 4-week bootcamp and graduate with 7 years of work experience, thanks to the elaborate racket run by the training institutions, recruiting agencies/bodyshoppers and the outsourcing companies. If you did the math on their claimed experience, some of these folks were supposedly working while still in high school.

Had a fun day today. 2 weeks ago an Indian (US Citizen) IT employee called ICE on his own department because he heard that many of them were here on fake H1-B Visas. 25 employees were arrested out of 100ish. He was correct. After talking to his leadership he also informed them that many here legally,but we're hired under false pretenses, because they had bought diplomas in India and never really got a degree. At this point management was worried they had been defrauded so they called me up to help them figure it out. We ran all of the remaining employees hiring paperwork through some AI analytics today. Massive amounts of documents. This included reading copies of diplomas, and and a ton of other personal documents. Training the AI analytics tool to look for irregularities in past work experience and education history. As an example: 1.) Check to see if the school exists 2.) Check to see if the person who signed the diploma actually worked at the university 3.) check to see if the degree listed is actually taught at that university 4.) ETC ETC ETC. We found that of the remaining 75 H1-b employees 50 of them had provided fake diplomas to either our company directly, or the contracting company they were hired through. So out of this one department of 250 people, 100 ish were from India here on visas, and 75 of them had defrauded the company during the hiring process. Either providing fake visa paperwork or falsification of education. Basically 75% lied. Not sure what they are going to do about it yet, as across the IT organization they have 1500 ish H1-B visa employees and they cannot fire 75% of them right now even if they wanted to, but I do know they are running all current visa employees records through the tool, any new applicants as well, and will be firing anyone who lied as soon as they get replacement in line for them. From the leadership I was working with: "We have to remove them, we cannot keep employees who defraud the company even if they are good and cheap"

@Bannons_WarRoom And nothing will be done about this problem while American graduate unemployment rates are approaching historic highs, due to regulatory and political capture. Meanwhile there are murmurs of a military draft of young Americans. Watch how we implode during the midterms!

ELIZABETH MITCHELL: Senator Rick Scott is urging the president to end an Optional Practical Training that gives a tax incentive to employers for hiring foreign students. He says that not only does this harm American college graduates who are facing very high unemployment rates, but it also gives a leg up to Communist China! @TheElizMitchell

@SanDiegoKnight My understanding is that they are primarily pursuing the small fish (mostly Indian owned bodyshopping companies). I'm not aware of any of the major companies currently being investigated. Is that due to regulatory capture?

DOL just reported a 48% surge in H-1B investigations. More site visits. AI-powered audits. “Project Firewall” cracking down on wage violations and program abuse. This enforcement is long overdue. But no amount of audits can fix a fundamentally broken system designed to import cheaper foreign labor instead of hiring Americans. Cancel the H-1B program completely. American workers first. #EndH1B news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

World’s number 1 state sponsor of terrorism, bombs the world’s number 2 state sponsor of terrorism, so they banned people from the world’s number 3 state sponsor of terrorism. I see the global caliphate project is having some bumps in the road.

@AdamBLiv It's predatory pricing to trap the lemmings. MS saw how BlackRock and other institutions used their respective BTC ETFs to make sh!t ton of money by performing rug pulls orchestrated in partnership with APs like Jane Street and it wants in too. Buy BTC is move it to cold storage.

Wow! Morgan Stanley will be charging 11 bps less than BlackRock for their Bitcoin ETF. Flows are going to be CRAZY. GET READY, KIDS.

@LayoffAI And nothing will happen due to regulatory capture. The watchdogs are promised jobs for either themselves or their family members in exchange for looking away. There occasionally will be some noise that something is being done about this fraud but it's mostly unknown companies.

To hire an H-1B worker, companies must sign a federal form saying they can't find qualified Americans. We pulled 15 years of filings. Analyzed the top 5. 314,100 times they said no Americans available. 99,000 times they fired Americans. Signed under oath. Exposed by data.

@SanDiegoKnight It's a welcome start. They should also apply these wage floors on H-1B visa renewals.

New proposal just dropped on H-1B wages. The plan: Push wage floors higher at every level 17th → 34th 34th → 52nd 50th → 70th 67th → 88th All tied to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Example: If a role currently pays: • $80K at the 17th percentile It may now need to pay: • ~$95K–$105K+ to meet the new floor A significant shift in how the program is priced. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-06017.pdf

@KarlApexFit Thanks for sharing. Given that recovery is slower among older adults, how would you recommend spacing out the exercises to ensure adequate recovery?

After 40, you lose 2% of your muscle mass every year. Most ignore it until it's too late. → Joint pain → Slower metabolism → Loss of independence I've spent 17 years helping 45-65+ year olds reverse it permanently. Here's your 4-step playbook to build muscle at any age:

@DeanTTraining I would recommend adding another column for age. Zone 2 cardio for older men is much different than that for men in their 30s. Recovery is slower among older men and chances of injuries go up exponentially.

The BEST Cardio for Fat Loss/Body Composition is… Zone 2 Cardio My preferred protocol: A ~10% Incline Walk @ 3-4 MPH I’ve prescribed Zone 2 Cardio to a lottttt of clients on their non-resistance training days NEVER seen it negatively impact a subsequent resistance training session Zone 3 - Zone 5 on the other hand almost always has a recovery demand Hence why it’s not the most ideal for body composition

@luisomor You just smudged the Mount of Jupiter and other astrological signs from your palm. Guess what the palm-reader will call you on your next reading? That you aren't a guy anymore.

Wearing gloves at the gym is insanely gay Your hands should be looking like this after spamming hundreds of pullups every week

@FICMBondTrader You forgot to include that both men and women need to be educated. Men should ideally have attended a S tier or Top 10 university to become highly coveted. Without education, your vocabulary is essentially that of a hillbilly.

How girls get attractive: -dont eat -dont put out How guys get attractive: -Two hour sessions gym -chicken, rice, broccoli 7x per day w/6% BF -1200iu TEST / 20iu HGH / 50iu TREN / 50iu DECA -MUST be CEO/biz owner, 1mm AUM min -trip to turkey -LEG EXTEND surgery -Bonesmashing

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@w0rdgenerator That's a fair callout. But the guy walking 20k+ steps will live beyond 80, whereas the folks anchored to their desks for 70+ hours each week are going to die by their 60s due to lifestyle diseases.

How unemployed do you have to be to hit 20k steps a day

@mikealfred Sounds like a made-up story.

Currently on a first class flight to Dubai. Noticed something interesting: economy passengers all looking out the windows and discussing the possibility of drone and missile attacks. Every single person in first class is buying Bitcoin and coding with Claude. Lesson in there.

Pretty amateurish to leap to those assumptions about me. My issue is with people who dodge real debate, hide behind dog whistles, and can’t argue with logic. Separately: yeah, I’m skeptical on UAE investments. Their defense tech isn’t yet on par with what India deployed in Operation Sindoor.

@Collateral_1 lol why are you concerned about indians lmao you hate indians, let them make bad decisions and burn their money retard

indian millionaires+ should scoop up as much real estate as possible in Dubai once in a lifetime opportunity

@HarmeetKDhillon Very inspirational. That too, with your demanding job. I've been hitting around 10k-16k most days of the week - you make 20k+ aspirational. How do you deal with the muscle pains, and blisters on your feet?

20,000+ steps today. Mens sana in corpore sano. How about you?

Not everything has to fit your agenda. This isn't politics—it's US national interest: securing domestic refining of VZ's heavy crude, reinforcing petrodollar dominance, and preventing a repeat of China's chokehold on rare earths, silver, etc. (they process most of the world's supply and weaponize it). Dependency isn't strength.

President Donald J. Trump announces that America First Refining is opening the FIRST new U.S. Oil Refinery in 50 YEARS in Brownsville, Texas. 🇺🇸 This is what AMERICAN ENERGY DOMINANCE looks like. 💪

It's the same rationale used by academia - employees on visas are more pliant and controllable than US citizens. There is rampant medical fraud at these hospitals but the employees on visas are less likely to act as whistleblowers to report their employer to the regulatory agencies.

Hospitals and insurers are quietly replacing American-trained doctors with foreign staff. Lower payroll. Higher compliance. Bigger margins. U.S. grads carry 216k–500k debt and face capped residencies. Foreign-trained arrive with little debt and fast-track licenses. Patients get rising bills and less questioning care. They claim it's about rural rescue, but it is really about profit. Comment below if you’ve experienced it.