H-1Bs Could Lose 60-Day Job Loss Grace Period in DHS Plan

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If this goes through, it would be YUUGE.

Today: An H1B loses his job, he has 60 days to find another employer to hire and sponsor his H1B. If he does, he stays in the US, else he has to leave.

If Implemented: H1B loses his job, he has NO time to find a job. He has to leave the US right away. Good bye.

Indian media is panicking (which is a good sign).
https://www.hindustantimes.com/nri/new-us-proposal-may-end-60-day-grace-period-for-h-1b-workers-how-indian-professionals-could-be-hit-by-change-101786154253068.html



H-1B Workers Would Lose 60-Day Job Loss Grace Period in DHS Plan
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/h-1b-workers-would-lose-60-day-job-loss-grace-period-in-dhs-plan.
Aug. 7, 2026, 5:05 PM CDT

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The Department of Homeland Security is advancing a proposal to nix a 60-day window for H-1B workers to find new employment after a job loss.

A proposed rule (RIN: 1615-AD22) to eliminate that grace period went to the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs for review Thursday.

Since 2017, DHS regulations extended the allotted time for H-1B workers and others with nonimmigrant status to find a another employer sponsor or change status before their period of authorized stay expires. Removing it would mean immediate consequences for workers' legal status if they're affected by layoffs.

ts5641
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Good. This H1-B visa scam needs to end. I like curry as much as the next guy but we've got enough of it.
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ts5641 said:

Good. This H1-B visa scam needs to end. I like curry as much as the next guy but we've got enough of it.
Curry is disgusting and shouldn't be allowed on US soil.
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For comparison, when I was on a work visa with a path to permanent residency in Australia, if I was to lose my job, I had 28 days to get me and my family out of the country.

What Australia tried to do was force employers to only bring over people who they paid high wages to and were committed to keeping on staff.

In the USA, it's just been wage and talent suppression.

I just interviewed an H-1B guy on Friday. I know he was an H-1B guy because his resume was 5 pages long with the same 30 bullet points for the 5 jobs he's had during the past 7 years.

My summary was - after 14 years of working experience including 7 in the USA, his skills where about what I would expect for a young American who had been out of College for 2-3 years.

But, since we've suppressed those entry level opportunities, there are hardly any recent college grads who can fill those junior roles.
infinity ag
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Hahaha scumbag grifter immigration lawyer worried now

I'm lovin' this.

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100%

We've created a vicious cycle where Indians take all the tech jobs, which results in Americans abandoning these career paths, so we have to hire Indians to fill the tech jobs.
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infinity ag said:

Hahaha scumbag grifter immigration lawyer worried now

I'm lovin' this.



The H-1B visa is exclusively linked to a designated employer, a particular job position, and a specific work site. It is not permissible to utilize an active H-1B status sponsored by one organization to work for another employer or in a different unapproved position without submitting a formal transfer request. H-1B visa holders are not citizens; if they seek new employment, they should return to their home country and apply for a new H-1B visa there.
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Ozzy Osbourne said:

100%

We've created a vicious cycle where Indians take all the tech jobs, which results in Americans abandoning these career paths, so we have to hire Indians to fill the tech jobs.


Exactly this. And corporations call it "lack of American talent"

Also "we" = US corporations
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This Blunt fellow is an Indian in disguise.
He has the gall to compare an American citizen losing his job to a foreign citizen losing his job in America.

Entitlement off the charts.

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With being told how vital these workers are for economic prosperity I feel we have an obligation to India to help send as many of these incredible workers back to their homeland to make India great
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HollywoodBQ said:

My summary was - after 14 years of working experience including 7 in the USA, his skills where about what I would expect for a young American who had been out of College for 2-3 years.

But, since we've suppressed those entry level opportunities, there are hardly any recent college grads who can fill those junior roles.

And in addition to what you stated...

More and more companies want 5+ years of expereicne for entry level positions. It's as if they don't want to spend a single minute doing in house training, so instead they spend a ton of wasted time trying to kill bad habits.

Unless the job is extremely technical, hire an intelligent kid out of highschool and teach/train that individual how to do the task how your company wants the task to be completed.
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BTKAG97 said:

HollywoodBQ said:

My summary was - after 14 years of working experience including 7 in the USA, his skills where about what I would expect for a young American who had been out of College for 2-3 years.

But, since we've suppressed those entry level opportunities, there are hardly any recent college grads who can fill those junior roles.

And in addition to what you stated...

More and more companies want 5+ years of expereicne for entry level positions. It's as if they don't want to spend a single minute doing in house training, so instead they spend a ton of wasted time trying to kill bad habits.

Unless the job is extremely technical, hire an intelligent kid out of highschool and teach/train that individual how to do the task how your company wants the task to be completed.


You are missing the point or are just being naive.

Companies know what they are doing. By requiring 5 years for an entry level job, they are effectively keeping American kids out of the job pool. So then they can claim to DoL that Americans are dumbos and so they need to bring in Kumar and Vikay in as we need their skills and talents. This way they don't have to pay 3 years of employee taxes they save hiring a foreigner. His work may be crap and the CEO doesn't care as he will be gone in a few years onto a better job.

We are facing a mafia that has thought out its strategy very cleverly. Trump is upending it and they are squealing

Start from a baseline that US corporations and crooks and scumbags and then everything will make sense.

I saw the light. When will you?
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A sad day for all the closet H1B lovers out there. They are getting pushed out.

If an H1B loses his/her job, they used to get 60 days to find a new one. That led to the gaming of the system where Indian shell companies would charge a large fee from the person who lose his job in exchange for an H1B filing. There was no work they had to do. They could stay in the country fooling immigration.

Now Trump is killing the 60 day. Once this clears process, you lose, you snooze (in your own home country).
GTFO H1Bs.

It is happening.


H-1B Workers to Lose Grace Period in White House-Approved Plan
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/h-1b-workers-to-lose-grace-period-in-white-house-approved-plan
Aug. 28, 2026, 8:36 AM CDT
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A plan to eliminate the 60-day window for H-1B workers to find new employment after a job loss has received approval from a key White House office, signaling its public release soon.

The Department of Homeland Security proposal (RIN: 1615-AD22) cleared review at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Thursday. Since 2017, agency regulations have allowed H-1B specialty occupation workers that window to change status or find a new sponsor after their employment is terminated.

The proposal is one of a series of Trump administration policy measures disrupting the H-1B program, including a proposal this week for a $103,265 fee for new hires.

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infinity ag said:

A sad day for all the closet H1B lovers out there. They are getting pushed out.

If an H1B loses his/her job, they used to get 60 days to find a new one. That led to the gaming of the system where Indian shell companies would charge a large fee from the person who lose his job in exchange for an H1B filing. There was no work they had to do. They could stay in the country fooling immigration.

Now Trump is killing the 60 day. Once this clears process, you lose, you snooze (in your own home country).
GTFO H1Bs.

It is happening.


H-1B Workers to Lose Grace Period in White House-Approved Plan
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/h-1b-workers-to-lose-grace-period-in-white-house-approved-plan
Aug. 28, 2026, 8:36 AM CDT
Andrew Kreighbaum

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A plan to eliminate the 60-day window for H-1B workers to find new employment after a job loss has received approval from a key White House office, signaling its public release soon.

The Department of Homeland Security proposal (RIN: 1615-AD22) cleared review at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Thursday. Since 2017, agency regulations have allowed H-1B specialty occupation workers that window to change status or find a new sponsor after their employment is terminated.

The proposal is one of a series of Trump administration policy measures disrupting the H-1B program, including a proposal this week for a $103,265 fee for new hires.



This should have happen the 1st week of his office.
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Does this make it easier for employers to abuse H1B employees, who would now be more hesitant to leave? If so, would it make them more valuable to employers?
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McNasty said:

Does this make it easier for employers to abuse H1B employees, who would now be more hesitant to leave? If so, would it make them more valuable to employers?

Its possible
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BTKAG97 said:

ts5641 said:

Good. This H1-B visa scam needs to end. I like curry as much as the next guy but we've got enough of it.
Curry is disgusting and shouldn't be allowed on US soil.


It's disgusting because it's prepared by Indians who never follow any basic hygiene practices or mandated restaurant safety codes. You cannot trust the food to not make you sick at all.

The food is good, but only if it's prepared by natural born Americans. Otherwise, I'm never eating it because I cannot trust they will follow any of the restaurant FDA requirements.
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infinity ag said:

This Blunt fellow is an Indian in disguise.
He has the gall to compare an American citizen losing his job to a foreign citizen losing his job in America.

Entitlement off the charts.




Yep. He got caught. Every account who is against this is either Indian in disguise or an immigration lawyer. The latter should be deported with the former.
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samurai_science said:

infinity ag said:

A sad day for all the closet H1B lovers out there. They are getting pushed out.

If an H1B loses his/her job, they used to get 60 days to find a new one. That led to the gaming of the system where Indian shell companies would charge a large fee from the person who lose his job in exchange for an H1B filing. There was no work they had to do. They could stay in the country fooling immigration.

Now Trump is killing the 60 day. Once this clears process, you lose, you snooze (in your own home country).
GTFO H1Bs.

It is happening.


H-1B Workers to Lose Grace Period in White House-Approved Plan
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/h-1b-workers-to-lose-grace-period-in-white-house-approved-plan
Aug. 28, 2026, 8:36 AM CDT
Andrew Kreighbaum

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A plan to eliminate the 60-day window for H-1B workers to find new employment after a job loss has received approval from a key White House office, signaling its public release soon.

The Department of Homeland Security proposal (RIN: 1615-AD22) cleared review at the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs on Thursday. Since 2017, agency regulations have allowed H-1B specialty occupation workers that window to change status or find a new sponsor after their employment is terminated.

The proposal is one of a series of Trump administration policy measures disrupting the H-1B program, including a proposal this week for a $103,265 fee for new hires.



This should have happen the 1st week of his office.


Beggars (all of us) can't be choosers. I am happy with whatever we get at this point.
We need this to happen and be implemented and to hear instances of people leaving.

Until then, done is not done.
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McNasty said:

Does this make it easier for employers to abuse H1B employees, who would now be more hesitant to leave? If so, would it make them more valuable to employers?


Maybe. But who cares. The more they are abused the more they will hate being here and more likely to leave.
I am way past caring about "rights" of H1Bs at this point. They don't care about Americans at all.

This is a good deterrence for people to stay away and not come here.

A housing crash is coming in H1B rich areas like almost all big cities. Brace yourselves.
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While I respect all humans, I simply do not care about foreigners and their rights to jobs here. I understand that it's a radical position, but the purpose of our government is to protect and serve American citizens. Therefore, I 100% support this, and frankly I think more should be done to disincentivize foreign workers over Americans.
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The sixty day grace period creates a race to the bottom for H-1Bs looking for a new employer to sponsor their visa. They'll take any job to avoid losing their status which stagnates wage growth and starting salaries for entry level positions.
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Was just discussing the 60-day thing with an H-1B here, an Indian guy (who I happen to personally like). The company is going through major changes, and I feel something is going to happen in the not-to-distant future. And if he keeps his job and I don't, I won't be that upset. The big fat check I would stand to get definitely enters into the situation.

I probably shouldn't mention he just had a kid.
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It's sounds like you're in a good position to weather that storm but there's a good chance that there's an American at your company that's about to get the worst professional news of their life. H1-Bs should always be the first to go during any restructuring/reorganization.
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Big Bad Trump making life miserable for H1Bs again.

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Spergin said:

BTKAG97 said:

ts5641 said:

Good. This H1-B visa scam needs to end. I like curry as much as the next guy but we've got enough of it.

Curry is disgusting and shouldn't be allowed on US soil.


It's disgusting because it's prepared by Indians who never follow any basic hygiene practices or mandated restaurant safety codes. You cannot trust the food to not make you sick at all.

The food is good, but only if it's prepared by natural born Americans. Otherwise, I'm never eating it because I cannot trust they will follow any of the restaurant FDA requirements.

Japanese curry is awesome.
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BTKAG97 said:

ts5641 said:

Good. This H1-B visa scam needs to end. I like curry as much as the next guy but we've got enough of it.
Curry is disgusting and shouldn't be allowed on US soil.


Is this a real sentiment? Started by, what, 24?

May I offer any of the following (without getting banned, of course - mods have banned me twice because of responses to posts like this...):

Cumin
Coriander
Garam Masala
Fennel seeds

Or is just curry that is the culprit?
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This guy telling his followers to scam the US immigration system by filing for O-1 visa (extraordinary ability).
How do they get it when 99% of them are average or mediocre? By gaming the system again. There are consultancies popping up all over which can "help you" get it by creating a track record to fool USCIS and DOJ. I wouldn't be surprised if they had a bunch of backoffice guys in Hyderabad creating artifiacts which they will recycle for each O-1 applicant with minor variations.

Reminds me of 18 years ago, my large employer hired TCS and they came in a large group of 40 into our offices. I was in charge of writing code for an investment product. They pitched management that they could do a better job and were given the go-ahead. All they did was take my exact code and my business logic, add a UI wrapper on top of it and claim it to be their own. They are so dumb that they did not even change the comments in the log files, I could recognize them to be mine. I asked a developer and he just grinned. That was 2008 and here we are in 2026.


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Interviewed an O-1 with his PhD in India and post doc in the US. Absolutely terrible. The 0-1 Visa is a joke. He had a ton of publications and 'reviewer' for obscure tiny journals and publications. Couldn't answer very basic questions in his discipline.

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scd88 said:

BTKAG97 said:

ts5641 said:

Good. This H1-B visa scam needs to end. I like curry as much as the next guy but we've got enough of it.

Curry is disgusting and shouldn't be allowed on US soil.


Is this a real sentiment? Started by, what, 24?

May I offer any of the following (without getting banned, of course - mods have banned me twice because of responses to posts like this...):

Cumin
Coriander
Garam Masala
Fennel seeds

Or is just curry that is the culprit?

Cumin - Tex-Mex Staple

Coriander - Don't think it's bad. Not well versed on the flavor.

Garam Masala - I know even less on this flavor.

Fennel Seeds - Burn them with fire. They are gross and hate it when they are added to ground sausage.

Curry - Just plain gross. Can't point to a specific ingredient. All admit that I most likely have not tried every variety or ethnic version of curry however.
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I appreciate the well thought out response.
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Japanese curry is fine once in a while. But most Indian curries are a slop. No thanks.
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infinity ag said:

Indian media is panicking (which is a good sign).

"DOOOO NOOTTTTT REDEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEM!!!!!!!!!"
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I like a lot of Indian food but fennel seeds are horrible. I can't believe anyone actually likes that stuff. Clove gum tastes better than that stuff
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