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Big changes are coming to the h one b visa that has swamped America with millions of low wage programmers. The administration now plans to return the program to its original purpose of bringing in top talent rather than running coding sweatshops that replace Americans. h one b was introduced in 1990 to bring top talent in engineering technology and medicine. The original salary cut off was $60,000, which in 1990 was about twice the salary of an entry level programmer. If adjusted for inflation, the minimum h one b today would be a 139,000. The initial cap was 65,000; it grew to 85,000, plus unlimited exemptions for universities, nonprofits, and government. It's 730,000 h one b's, about one in eight tech jobs. After years, h one b's can be converted into green cards; one estimate: 1.5 to 2,000,000 h one b's. That's roughly 3,000,000 people on the h one b gravy train, including roughly a million and a half tech workers, which is about one quarter of all tech jobs.