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I think it's really counterproductive here to refer to battery electric buses just as "electric buses".

Electric trolleybuses (buses with overhead wires) have a century+ track record of reliability and utility from Shanghai to São Paulo (unlike BEBs, a relative newcomer tech)

Apparently this is a fork of OpenRailwayMap; this is the repo of the fork: github.com/hiddewie/Ope...

The old Bill Holm replica totem poles seem more hidden away than ever before. I wonder how many UW students walk by regularly without ever noticing them.

This explains the very arbitrary-sounding qualification that petitions are only restricted for (future) H-1(b) workers "currently outside the United States". The admin probably thinks they can't legally touch CoS, transfer, & renewal for H-1(b) beneficiaries already lawfully admitted to the US.

I suspect this is all framed as an "restriction on entry" because the president does not have the authority to unilaterally raise fees on visas, but INA § 212(f) and INA § 215(a) do allow POTUS to deny admission to certain classes of aliens (in this case, conditional on paying a $100k fee)

Three days later, it's still very unclear how the proclamation will interact with transfers of employer, changes of status, renewals, etc. Technically, all of these things are also "petitions". Would be really great to get some clarity.

A day later, the White House ended up "clarifying" that--contrary to the actual text of the proclamation--this would not be applied to existing H-1(b) holders, only to "the petition".

The Secretary of Commerce (???) is muddying the waters majorly by saying that the fee will be required every year. The executive proclamation does not mention this at all. That said, the order only lasts 12 months, so maybe there'll be a new order demanding $100k for every year from now on.

I suspect that the administration started with the idea of "let's make employers pay a [much larger] fee to hire H-1(b) workers" and then tried to warp that idea into something (they thought) they could implement by executive action.

A friend of mine is rushing to come back from Europe before this goes into effect. Really hope he makes it in time!

The administration appear to have simply forgotten about H-4 visa holders, i.e. dependents/spouses of H-1(b) holders.

Wow, apparently I managed to scoop Bloomberg by over an hour! You saw it here first; follow @connorboyle.io for the latest in weird immigration policy news, I guess!

Is Trump just rebranding the (existing) EB-5 visa as the "Trump Gold Card"? Is this "contribution" an investment, then (not a direct fee paid to the US treasury)?

But also, in the FAQ it says a gold card holder receives "lawful permanent resident status as an EB-1 or EB-2 visa holder"

?????????

Wait, the cost of the "Trump Gold Card" has apparently gone down to $1 million (from $5 million)! I don't remember any news or announcements about this! And now there's a "Platinum Card" that allows spending 270 days in the US without being subject to US taxes.

It would seem in the last 10 minutes or so, the sub-header changed from "Enter your information below to be notified the moment access opens" to "Unlock life in America"

Sometime in the last week or so, trumpcard.gov went from saying "The Trump Card is Coming" to "The Trump Card is Here".