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Will an executive order (which I assume this is) actually make any difference?

Doesn't it take an act of congress to make any serious headway here?

Personally, I was an H1B a 4.5 years before Trump convinced it was time to leave. I was in the bay area and handsomely overpaid. I have no personal experience of it being abused, but I'm obviously privileged, having worked at reputable tech companies and coming from reasonable wealthy european country. (I was never as scared of loosing job or healthcare as my American co-workers, because I would just move home, and have access to healthcare if I lost my job)

But I will say, that the lottery aspect of the H1B adds a lot of uncertainty that might discourage me from living in SF again. So lifting the caps and/or stemming abuse might be a good idea.

This is a rule in the Federal Register. So it's basically like law. It's essentially how the executive is interpreting the laws that congress has passed.

There is a rule that says a new President can automatically overturn all rules made in the last 90 days of the previous administration, but we're before that deadline, so this is pretty much a done deal.

If the next admin wanted to change this, they have to go through the long and arduous rule making process again.

>If the next admin wanted to change this, they have to go through the long and arduous rule making process again.

Does that also apply to rules that didn't go through that process but were rushed through with the interim final rules process? Doesn't sound logical to me.

This certainly took a long time in planning.

Or change the law. Not particularly likely with power shared between two parties of course.

While such action can make a difference, such as whether to put kids in cages or not, it can't really do much. You can't use it to change quotas, set a minimum wage, or allow H1B holders to change job.

So calling it an "overhaul" is perhaps a bit much. It's more like a tweak that mitigates some of the abuse and issues with the system.

Can you cite a source for this (or what it's called so I can google it?)

https://www.federalregister.gov/uploads/2011/01/the_rulemaki...

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