If you work anywhere near international hiring right now, you’ve seen the number: a $100,000 fee attached to new H-1B petitions, announced by presidential proclamation in September 2025, with a related $103,265 fee since proposed as a formal 2026 rule that is,...
A tenure-track researcher accepts an offer in March. Her start date is set for August, timed to a grant’s fiscal year. Then the paperwork stalls — a missing form, a visa category nobody double-checked, a Form I-983 sitting unsigned somewhere in a departmental...
