With the American technology industry, which contains the precipitation of the last assault of Donald Trump on immigrants, Europe senses blood in the water. Trump blinded American companies at the end of last week with a fresh fee of $ 100,000 per year for all H-1B visas that are used to bring Tens of thousands of qualified employees to the technology sector of the country. Giants such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft spent the weekend, rushing existing H-1B owners from abroad and encouraging them to cancel future travel plans. Rivals in the pond spent that they were mounted offensive to lure disappointed foreign workers.
“The new fee for $ 100,000 has left an amazing talent suspended” wrote Barney Hussey-Yeo, founder of British Fintech Unicorn Cleo, on LinkedIn. “If it’s you, we want to help.”
“We know that uprooting your life was not part of your plan. But sometimes the best possibilities come from unexpected changes,” said Hussey-Yeo, advertising over 100 open roles at the company’s London office.
Victor Riparbelli, co-founder and general director of London Synthesia, AI video start-up and other unicorn, published a similar post on the platform. “H-1bs now causes a lot of uncertainty,” he said. “Fortunately, you don’t need him to get a job in the Silicon Valley.”
Not only unicorns try to redirect the dissatisfied talent to Great Britain. “If your H-1B looks a bit rocky, we sponsor visas for engineers who want to try an internship in Great Britain!” he said Ross Mcnairn, CEO Scottish Legal Ai Company Wordsmith. LinkedIn and X are full of founders and leaders in smaller technology companies such as DefinitelyIN Exo LabsAND ReplaceAll named H-1B visas in their talent overstates. Competitive salaries, visas and relocation costs promise a lot, and most importantly, less uncertainty than employees in the USA.
Even the British government smells like an opportunity with H-1B visa chaos apparently Dreaming the existing campaign for visa fees for the best global talents.
US government officials tried to decide on a fresh fee. They assured employers that a fee of $ 100,000 would not apply to renewal or existing visa owners and say that employees who are already part of the program can travel as usual, without worrying about hitting the re -entry fee.
The administration also began promising release for some industries. H-1B visas are necessary not only for the world of technology, but also for research universities and the medical sector-one of the first groups that the White House suggested, can get a waiver of the fee, there were doctors.
For some reason, companies seem to hesitate whether to take this administration for a word – they tried to restore employees to the USA in September 21 of the administration and still tell employees to cancel their travel plans and others. The administration has already spent months, alienating foreign employees and making the US a less attractive destination – withdrawing thousands of student visas, stopping hundreds of southern Koreans at the LG battery plant and spending citizens from entire countries.
American companies are very aware of how harmful Trump’s policy will be. Great technology is huge enough to survive the storm, but the startups will be heavily hit, he said Garry Tan, CEO and president of the Tech Y Combinator incubator. “Early teams cannot swallow this tax,” he said, slamming the decision to say “builders to build somewhere else … in the middle of the AI arms race.” Visual changes are “a huge gift for every foreign technology center,” said Tan.
But Trump and the technology industry rarely saw eye to eye. It is unlikely that the sector’s complaints apply to him very much, especially when repairs are offered by a useful stick – or carrots, depending on how you look at it – to rule against Gigantic Tech to keep him in line. Perhaps managers will continue to be nervous to stay in their kind grace.
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