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H‑1B Visa Program Update — June 2026

🔹 Court Ruling on $100,000 Fee (June 8, 2026)
U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin ruled the supplemental fee unlawful, calling it an unauthorized tax.

🔹 Stay & Appeal
The ruling is paused; the fee remains in effect pending First Circuit appeal. Employers must continue paying for consular cases.

🔹 Lottery Reform (FY2027)
Shift from random selection to wage‑weighted system (higher salaries favored).

🔹 Other Changes
Higher registration fees and stricter scrutiny already in place.

🔹 Legislative Proposals

American White‑Collar Worker Jobs Act (Rep. Chip Roy): Ends dual‑intent pathway, eliminates OPT, shortens visa duration, raises wage floors, prioritizes U.S. workers.

Other bills propose freezes, cap reductions, or restrictions. Still at proposal stage — require full legislative process.

🔹 Impact on Indian Applicants
Indians form 70%+ of H‑1B recipients. Current challenges include:

High consular fee (still active)

Wage‑weighted lottery favoring higher salaries

Potential OPT elimination

Reform uncertainty

🔹 Alternatives Being Explored
L‑1 (intra‑company), O‑1 (extraordinary ability), EB‑1/EB‑2 green cards, cap‑exempt employers (universities/non‑profits).

🔹 Bottom Line
Court ruling offers hope, but with the stay, appeals, and legislative pushes, the program remains in flux. Applicants should monitor USCIS/First Circuit updates, consult attorneys, and diversify immigration strategies.

#H1B #Immigration #USVisa #IndianApplicants #PolicyUpdate

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[Allen Lattimer @allen_lattimer]

50 AI tools that will save you hundreds of hours in 2026. 🤯

1. Claude — Solve any problem
2. Perplexity — Research anything
3. PortfolioTab — Create your portfolio
4. Kling AI — Create AI videos
5. Tripo AI — Create 3D models
6. Gemini — Perfect writing
7. CapCut — Edit videos
8. The AI Library — Discover useful AI tools
9. YouLearn — Summarize YouTube videos
10. Canva — Design graphics
11. ElevenLabs — Clone voices
12. Podcastle — Edit podcasts
13. ChatGPT — Brainstorm ideas
14. NotebookLM — Analyze documents
15. Lovable — Build web apps
16. Bolt new — Generate full-stack apps
17. Cursor — AI coding assistant
18. Windsurf — AI software development
19. Replit — Build apps in your browser
20. Gamma — Create presentations
21. HeyGen — Create AI avatar videos
22. Synthesia — Generate AI presenter videos
23. Midjourney — Generate AI art
24. Ideogram — Create images with text
25. Runway — AI video editing
26. Pika — Generate AI videos
27. Luma AI — Create cinematic AI videos
28. Leonardo AI — Create game assets & artwork
29. Figma AI — Design UI/UX
30. Framer AI — Build websites
31. Tally — Create smart forms
32. Otter ai — Transcribe meetings
33. Fireflies ai — AI meeting notes
34. Granola — AI meeting assistant
35. Wispr Flow — Voice-to-text
36. Zapier — Automate workflows
37. Make — Connect apps with automation
38. n8n — Open-source automation
39. Photoroom — Edit product photos
40. Remove bg — Remove image backgrounds
41. Suno — Generate AI music
42. Udio — Create original songs
43. DeepL — Translate accurately
44. Poe — Access multiple AI models
45. Grok — Real-time AI assistant
46. Genspark — AI super agent
47. Manus — Autonomous AI agent
48. Elicit — Research papers faster
49. SciSpace — Understand research papers
50. Notion AI — Write and organize notes

✅ Save this list—you'll probably use it more than you think.

[Simons @Simon_Ingari]

If you need to take a sick leave, always choose Wednesday.

Here's why :

[Dipanshu Kushwaha @Dipanshu_AI]

INSTEAD OF WATCHING NETFLIX TONIGHT. Spend 2 hour with this. Claude AI FULL COURSE that teaches you how to BUILD and AUTOMATE anything. The people who watch this tonight will wake up tomorrow with a new skill. Watch it and bookmark it now.

[Dhruvam @Dhruvam987]

Vibe coding is actually insane 😭

Met a 17-year-old making “$800k/month” from a SaaS he built in 13 days.

I asked what stack he used.

Bro said:
• ChatGPT for ideas
• Claude for coding
• Cursor for “vibes”
• Firebase for “database stuff”
• didn’t know what an API actually was

The app somehow scaled to 1.6M users.

He thought rate limiting was “something Stripe handles.”

Database was publicly readable
Secrets committed to GitHub
No backups
No tests
No monitoring

The app crashed every Friday at exactly 7PM and he called it “traffic validation.”

Investors still offered him $40M.

None of this happened btw

[Praveen @DrPraveenwrites]

From Aalumai to Attakathi – The spectacular evolution of a perennial political turncoat Edappadi Karuppa Palaniswami!

Critics of @EPSTamilNadu have forever opined that he is an uncharismatic, uninvolving, uninspiring, uncharitable, uninteresting, unaccommodating, unambitious, and unimaginative politician in Tamil Nadu, driven largely by self-interest, personal gain, and cowardice.

No wonder he has never won an election on his own (11 on the trot) and perhaps never will again.

I am glad that finally even EPS’s own supporters are beginning to come to grips with reality and make statements that align with the truth.

Whether the ADMK will make a dramatic comeback like it did in the past (1998, 2001, 2011) is something only time can answer. But EPS’s time is over. It would be good for the party if he exits gracefully.

The funny thing is that, in order to defeat the DMK, I supported the NDA in the assumption that it will be most formidable front and even voted for the ADMK in the election.

My mother, however, saw the bigger picture and voted for @TVKVijayHQ something I came to know only a few days later because, on the day of voting, we had supposedly reached a consensus that we would vote for the ADMK.

Women often go by instinct and get it right most of the time, whereas men go by logic and think they get it right most of the time. There is a gulf of difference.

What an irony!

BTW, @SavukkuOfficial was the one who coined the title Aalumai for @EPSTamilNadu

From Aalumai to Attakathi – the curious case and the spectacular evolution of perennial political turncoat Edappadi Karuppa Palaniswami!

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Chennai | Members of Tamil Nadu ABVP meet CM Vijay at the State Secretariat today

Yuvraj Damodaran, Member, ABVP, says, "Today, a delegation of ABVP met CM Vijay. We have presented a memorandum of 16 demands of students in the state. The CM has immediately agreed on 8 demands and promised to look into the other demands as well. One of our demands is Tamil language courses and students' union elections in all universities and institutions across the state. We have requested budgetary allocation for infra and research in education. We have also requested that VCs be appointed where posts remain vacant. We have also demanded a special anti-narcotics task force to be introduced near educational campuses. We want a drug-free Tamil Nadu."

[முத்து @muthuhere3]

EVM doubts started only this moment after he walked out of the CBI office delhi .

Before that inquiry, he was very weak.

Connect the dots.

[Praveen @DrPraveenwrites]

EPS has become the embodiment of the saying: “Thaanum padukka maattaar, thalliyum padukka maattaar!”

When EPS allotted losing seats to the BJP in an attempt to finish the party for good in Tamil Nadu, he believed he could form an ADMK government with a simple majority and permanently marginalize the BJP as a political force. It backfired spectacularly! Today, he is not even the Leader of the Opposition.

After doing virtually nothing for 4½ years as the principal Opposition Leader, he tried to project himself as the primary anti-DMK force and expected people to vote for him purely based on the traditional DMK–ADMK five-year cycle. That backfired too. Vijay emerged as the fulcrum of the anti-DMK movement.

After his disastrous defeat, instead of acting like a statesman by supporting Vijay, forming a coalition government, and becoming Deputy Chief Minister, EPS allegedly tried to crawl back to the CM’s chair through backdoor negotiations with the DMK. That too backfired. Nobody trusted him.

When his CM ambitions collapsed, he reportedly tried to stop his own MLAs from supporting Vijay during the floor test. That backfired as well. His own MLAs have now abandoned him for good.

Yet, EPS still does not seem to realise that he has lost his relevance in Tamil Nadu politics. Perhaps it is a toxic combination of ego, insecurity, and an inability to understand the seismic shift taking place in modern politics and the expectations of Gen Z voters.

I think even many of his hardcore supporters may privately admit today that EPS has become the living embodiment of the phrase:

“Thaanum padukka maattaar, thalliyum padukka maattaar!”

[நைனா  @Writer_Naina]

விரைவில் அதிமுகவில் அனைவருக்கும் அறிந்த முகமாக இளைஞர்களின் மரியாதைக்குறியவரானவர் முழு கட்சிபொறுப்பையும் ஏற���பார் ! எதிர்பாராததை எதிர்பாருங்கல் -எடப்பாடி பழனிச்சாமி

[naiive @naiivememe]

Plumbers, and electricians watching AI replace everyone except them

[S.P. Velumani @SPVelumanicbe]

கழகப் பொதுச் செயலாளர் அவர்கள் உண்மை நிலையை இந்த நேரத்திலும் உணராமல், இப்படி ஒரு அறிக்கை விட்டிருப்பது என்பது மிகுந்த வருத்தம் அளிக்கிறது.

எடப்பாடியார் அவர்களின் பிரசார உழைப்பை எந்த இடத்திலும் யாரும் மறுத்துப் பேசவில்லை.

ஆனால், கூட்டணி குறித்தும், தேர்தல் செயல்பாடுகள் குறித்தும் யாரையும் கேட்டறியாமல் மிகுந்த தன்னிச்சையாக செயல்பட்டீர்கள். தங்களின் வார்த்தைகளை, தம்பிகளாக நாங்களும் ஏற்றுக்கொண்டு செயல்பட்டோம்.

ஆனால் தோல்வி வந்த பிறகு, ஒரு தலைமை பொறுப்பில் இருப்பவர் இறங்கி வந்து எல்லோரிடமும் பேச முன்வந்திருக்க வேண்டும். அதை விடுத்து எப்போதும் போல “நான் மட்டுமே எல்லாம்” என்ற நிலையில் மட்டுமே நீங்கள் பேசிக் கொண்ட���ருப்பதை உணர்வுள்ள எந்த கழகத் தொண்டனும் ஏற்றுக்கொள்ள மாட்டான்.

இதை மட்டுமே கழகப் பெரும்பான்மை சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள், தலைமைக் கழக நிர்வாகிகள், மாவட்டக் கழகச் செயலாளர்கள் மற்றும் தொண்டர்களாகிய நாங்கள் எல்லாம் எங்கள் கருத்தாக சொல்லி வருகிறோம்.

மக்கள் அளித்துள்ள தீர்ப்பை மதித்து நாங்கள் செயல்படுகிறோம். மக்கள் ஆதரவு பெற்ற த.வெ.க. அரசுக்கு ஆதரவு அளிப்பது என்ற அரசியல் அறத்தோட�� கழகத்தின் ஆதரவை பெரும்பான்மை சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினர்கள் வழங்கியுள்ளோமே தவிர, யாரையும் அவமரியாதை செய்யும் எண்ணமோ, கழகத்தை பிரிக்கும் எண்ணமோ எங்கள் யாருக்கும் இல்லை.

இப்போதும் நீங்கள் அழைத்தால், பேச நாங்கள் தயார்.

தோல்விக்கான காரணங்களை எல்லோரும் சேர்ந்து ஆராய்வோம். கழகத்தின் எதிர்காலப் பாதையை அனைவரும் ஒன்றிணைந்து தீர்மானிப்போம்.

“எந்தத் தியாகமும் செய்யத் தயாராக உள்ளேன்” என்று அறிக்கையில் கூறியுள்ளீர்கள். தங்களிடம் நாங்கள் கேட்பது ஒன்று தான்-

“போங்க போங்க” என்று எப்போதும் போல விர���்டி அடிக்காமல், “வாங்க வாங்க” என்று ஒருமுறை அழைத்து பாருங்கள்…!!

எல்லாமே மாறும்! கட்சி நல்லா இருக்கும்!

@EPSTamilNadu

[Prakash Singh @singh_prakash]

Chief Minister Tamilnadu looks pathetic in all the recent pictures. Turning out to be a weak and vulnerable leader. At this rate, Govt may not last even six months.

[KS / Karthigaichelvan S @karthickselvaa]

Update :
About 25 foreign nationals arrested for fraudulent voting in Tamil Nadu Assembly poll.
The accused persons, carrying foreign passports, were intercepted by officials of the Bureau of Immigration and detained by the police after indelible ink was found on their index fingers.

[��ோவிந்தராஜ் @GOV_INDA_RAJ]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Arasu_Aiadmk @Makkal_aiadmk]

நான் பேசமாட்டேன், நான் வீட்டுக்கு போனதும் என் அறிக்கை தான் பேசும்!! அறிக்கை பாலு! 😂💥

[SAKTHIVEL 🦅 🐅 @Sakthi_2017]

🤣🤣🤣

[𝚃𝚑𝚊𝚛𝚜𝚑𝚞-ᵇᵒʸ 🦅 @Tharshu_boy]

சட்டமன்றம் 🤦‍♀️🤡 அறிக்கை 🔥😂

[🧛 AK mafia 🧛 NFA 🔥🔥🔥 @aamuthankani]

அவன் CM ஆக போட்ட plan சக்ஸஸ்..... ஆனா CM ஆகி என்னெல்லாம் பண்ணனும்னு plan போட்ருந்தானோ அதெல்லாம் failure.....