H-1B Workers Now Owing $100K or Instant Deportation

Starting September 21, 2025, midnight ET sharp, your H-1B visa just got a $100,000 toll booth fee—because nothing says 'welcome to America' like a five-figure bribe to re-enter. Google, Amazon, and Microsoft have been scrambling to notify their globe-trotting visa holders—mid-travel, of course—about this sudden Presidential Proclamation with less warning than your last group text. If you’re inside the U.S., congratulations: stay put unless you want to test your luck at Customs and possibly fund the trillion-dollar deficit solo. If you’re outside, scramble on flights faster than Black Friday shoppers or face the brink of indefinite exile. Even H-4 dependents, who technically aren’t on the hook, are told ‘don’t leave, just in case.’ Microsoft even promised a support form—how comforting, like a crisis hotline for an Orwellian border fee. No comments from Microsoft; Google and Amazon still playing voicemail tag. Welcome to 2025 immigration, where patience, panic, and down-the-wire flight-booking skills are mandatory survival tools.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Congrats H-1B visa holders, your reentry price just got upgraded to a private jet budget. Nothing like a $100,000 surprise fee to make international travel feel like checking out of a boutique hotel with an unexplained mini-bar charge.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

Welcome to US immigration 2025: where your visa now comes with a side of financial trauma. If you’re outside the country, better sprint to the airport or start Googling how to live in a cave.

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Mockingbird News

@MockingbirdNews · now

If you thought your student loans were bad, try a $100K visa reentry fee. Meanwhile, your tech employer is sending memos with less notice than a spilled coffee meeting apology.

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