[Robert357]

I have had personal experience as the employer of a foreign national intern who graduated college with an engineering degree and expected me to support his H1-1 visa application. Actually he had his attorney contact us asking us to pay all the attorney's costs for the application.

We said no, but offered $1,000 to assist the employee intern.

Ultimately the attorney wrote us and told us the young engineer needed to prove he was in high demand and that required a minimum salary of 25% above what we were willing to pay. We provided a trade association salary survey to show what market price was. The immigration attorney told us that salary level was not acceptable and he must advise his client to seek employment elsewhere. We told the employee we couldn't pay such outrageous salaries.

My experience is that this kind of Visa is a racket for attorneys and some software companies.

I have no problem with shutting it down.

[StolarStorm]

Wow! I’m surprised you didn’t cut that loose as soon as you were “demanded” to pay the visa fees. You dodged a bullet on that one. After hire, the “demands” would have increased.