u/TechnicalPea790

I know this may not be a popular post, but it is better to say these things honestly than type which you hope is true and is not factual

So, DHS is eliminating the 60-day grace period after a job loss, yeah it will become a rule then that will happen , but knowing how things have been so far, hard fact this will be implemented, or reimplemented thats key, the proposal has completed White House review, it will complete the next steps too you may like it or not.

First things first,

If you are not completely confident about your job, start attending interviews right now, don’t put it off for a vacation you may be planning, update your CV , scout LinkedIn, Dice , indeed like there is no tomorrow and get a job offer that has some long term contract

You can’t wait until after a layoff to begin thinking about your next move, because this will become a law in a month or two.

Second and more unpopular opinion:

If you have not already made a major financial commitment, don’t do it, you now need to park your savings and wait for next announcements or till dust settles down, push the urge to invest in a house, car, or anything where you cannot take your money out easily., including signing an expensive long-term lease, co-signing debt or locking your savings into something you cannot quickly withdraw.

Keep an emergency fund and make sure your money is accessible, and vacay only if you are sure, That's because, let's assume you lose your job and you have to leave right now, getting another job obviously is not possible immediately. Going back to India, you need probably some more time to find another job.

You need all the savings you can. You need to move your kids, look into schools in back in India. You have to plan your other things. I mean, needless to say so many things.

I'm not trying to be an alarmist, but as I said earlier, it's better to be very blunt than not say these things. Because I've seen this happening with some of my friends who took for granted and they had to leave everything and go,and it's been tough for them, if all goes well you can either comeback or move to a different country. Keep. Remain financially strong and be in a position to get out on a short notice.

Prepare your family mentally, because if you're well prepared, it's better than underprepared and everybody in a shock. I know it's not easy.an it’s easier said than done, but then you know your family better, you know your job situation better, so mentally prep yourself

If you already own a house, don’t panic. This post is not criticizing anyone’s past decisions., you still have options, such as renting, selling or managing the property from outside the country if that situation ever arises.q

Parents also need to think about something people rarely discuss: their children’s education.

Keep passports, transcripts, vaccination records and school documents ready., also understand admission dates and transfer requirements in India or any other country you may need to move to.

There is no need to frighten your children or disrupt their education now. But as a parent, you should know exactly what you would do if you suddenly had to relocate.

I can say I genuinely hope this proposal never becomes a final rule, but we all know eventually it will in a month or two

Being prepared does not mean being negative. It meansYou are being smart and your family from having to make several life-changing decisions in a matter of days.

DHS JUST FILED A $103,265 H-1B FEE, BUILT TO SURVIVE THE SAME COURT THAT STRUCK DOWN THE FIRST $100k FEE

Here is why this one is different.

1. Different authority. The $100K came from a Presidential Proclamation using entry restriction powers (INA 212(f) and 215(a)). The Massachusetts judge said that made it a tax, and only Congress can tax. This new fee uses INA 286(m), the same fee statute USCIS has used for decades to set every filing fee it charges.
2. Different process. The Proclamation skipped public comment. This is a formal Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with a 30 day comment period, a cost study, and a regulatory impact analysis. That is the procedural box the court said was missing.
3. Different math. The $100K was a round number picked by the White House. The $103,265 has a paper trail: $8,777,488,035 in identified agency costs divided by 85,000 cap petitions, rounded to the nearest $5. Cost recovery is what 286(m) allows.
4. Different scope, and this is the big one. The Proclamation only hit workers entering from abroad. USCIS confirmed in October that F-1 students already in the US changing status to H-1B were exempt. That was the loophole. Roughly half of cap petitions come from students moving off OPT.

This fee closes it. It applies to "all H-1B cap-subject petitions," including change of status filed from inside the US. The rule specifically names the cap-gap process (OPT extension while the H-1B is pending) as one of the activities it funds. Every F-1 to H-1B conversion pays $103,265. And DHS sent a separate OPT fee rule to OMB on August 20, reported at $100K per application.

5. DHS says both can stack. Page 6: if the Proclamation payment is ever revived, "the petitioner would be required to pay both amounts."

67 pages. Filed for public inspection this morning, publishes tomorrow.

https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-17324.pdf?utm_campaign=pi+subscription+mailing+list&utm_medium=email&utm_source=federalregister.gov

Ok, another exam scam cycle is playing out all over media. Leak happens, students protest, someone spins it into activism, social media buzzes, politicians do their outrage act, some committee gets announced, nothing changes. We’ve all seen this repeat movie.

Yes , the anger makes sense, I mean people lose years of prep because some coaching racket got the paper 48 hours early. That’s not cool. But wait, years of prep in the GPT and Claude era? That phrase was meaningful a year back. Maybe not anymore. Let me come back to that.
Here’s what I actually want to say: these protests won’t matter. Not because paper leaks aren’t real, but because the thing you’re protesting to protect is already dying.

Look at what’s happening right now, companies are freezing entry-level hiring. IT service orgs that used to absorb lakhs of freshers every year are automating those roles with AI. Startups are shipping products with three people and an LLM instead of a team of twenty. This isn’t some future prediction. It’s happening today, right now, while you’re reading this. The job market these exams were supposed to feed into is shrinking in real time.

Be real for a second. How many of you are using ChatGPT or Claude for assignments right now? How many of your professors are generating question papers with AI? The whole system is quietly becoming a loop where AI writes the test and AI helps answer it. Everyone knows this. We just pretend the current education system will somehow escape this super intelligence being built in our pockets, making us dumber every passing day. It won’t. The speed of AI in everyday life is accelerating to levels none of us are ready for.

So while thousands of students burn energy on the streets demanding “fair exams,” the real question nobody’s asking is: do we even need these exams in 2028? The skills they test, memorization, pattern matching, formulaic problem solving, are exactly the skills AI already handles better than any human.

And the hard truth? Most of the youth out there protesting to save the current system will be jobless within it. Not because they’re not smart or hardworking. Because the system itself is collapsing under them, and no politician is going to save it. These are people who don’t understand the technology. They can’t protect you from something they can’t even see.

I think about it like a tsunami. The earthquake has already happened on the ocean floor. AI is that quake. But if you’re standing on the beach right now, the sea looks calm. Maybe you’re even sipping a margarita, enjoying the view. You don’t feel anything yet. But the wave is already forming out there. It’s only a matter of time before it reaches the shore. And when it does, “I cleared NEET” or “I cracked GATE” won’t be the lifeboat you think it is.

That time on the streets? Spend it learning to work with AI tools. Learn to build things. Learn to solve problems that machines can’t yet. That’s the actual protest against a broken system, making yourself impossible to ignore instead of depending on politicians who can’t tell an LLM from a PDF.

Just my take. Probably unpopular here. But I wanted to put this thought out.

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/05/12/ice-optional-practical-training-fraud-00916797

Spend five minutes on any developer subreddit and you’ll start noticing a pattern. You’ll see senior engineers with 10 to 15 years of experience casually saying they haven’t written a single line of code in months. They’re using tools like Claude Code, Cursor, and Copilot to generate production code, write tests, debug issues, refactor systems, and even handle deployments.

This isn’t theoretical anymore. I know senior software engineer’s who have basically stopped hand-coding altogether. The AI writes the code, they review it, maybe tweak a few things, and ship it. The months of effort previously on all of that has turned into days, Some of them are building entire apps in hours that would have taken weeks not too long ago

Now look at what most engineering colleges in India are still doing.

Four years filled with Applied Physics, Engineering Drawing, Discrete Mathematics, writing sorting algorithms on paper, studying Compiler Design theory, doing DBMS normalization exercises, and then a mini project in the seventh semester that an AI tool today could finish in under an hour.

The whole system, from first-year C programming to final-year Software Engineering, is built to produce one thing. Coders.

And coding is the exact skill that’s fast becoming a basic skill to have, now it’s all about fire up Claude code on cli and produce stuff even if you have never written a single line of code your entire life if you have been writing code all life does not matter any more.

But even if you ignore the curriculum for a moment, the bigger question is whether colleges are even aware of the job market they’re feeding into, Im stunned with how ignorant our colleges are.

Every year, around 15 lakh engineering graduates enter the market. In 2025. Campus placements have dropped sharply over the past couple of years, and fresher hiring at startups has also gone down.

Then there’s the US route. People are spending forty to fifty lakh on a master’s, hoping for better opportunities, and many of them are coming back. The H1B situation is unpredictable, hiring has slowed on this space.

So now we have a system where colleges are teaching outdated skills, producing graduates the industry doesn’t really need, for roles that are already being reshaped by AI, while charging families a significant amount of money for it.

And strangely, very few people in the system seem to be questioning whether any of this still makes sense.

If you’re choosing CSE this year, I’m genuinely curious why ? , the drastic changes we have seen in last year this will only accelerate, what will all the graduates do when they come out ?