$100,000 Surprise H1B Fee- What Happens at USCIS to Implement- with Efren Hernandez, Former USCIS Policy Leader & Founder-EH3 Immigration Consulting

Efren Hernandez, a life long USCIS policy leader, now working in the private sector sits down with Tahmina to discuss the shocking $100,000 fee imposed on H-1B visas. Efren Hernandez is the Founder of EH3 Immigration Consulting. He is an immigration lawyer with 32 years of experience in the field, the vast majority at the former INS and at USCIS. While he has seen and done just about everything in the immigration realm, for the last 24 years he has focused on business/employment-based immigration. He has held leadership roles at USCIS and the legacy INS, and has been involved in the creation of many major policies in the employment-based realm. He is retired from USCIS and now uses his deep institutional, legal, and policy knowledge to offer high-level strategic consulting on complex immigration questions. You can learn more about Efren on LinkedIn at Efren Hernandez III | LinkedIn Tahmina Talks Immigration and The Startup Visa podcast series are produced and edited by Tamanna Jahan. Check out Tahmina’s books at and our startup visa series which is intended to be your toolbox for the success of your immigration journey. And if the world is feeling heavy right now, cultivate joy in your life with Tahmina’s journal Finding Joy series. Here’s a link to her best selling new coloring book: Color Your Joy: Birds and Wildlife Coloring Book: Watson, Tahmina, Jahan, Tamanna, Watson, Sofia, Watson, Sarina: 9798988507239: Amazon.com: Books Be sure to

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$100,000 Surprise H1B Fee- What Happens at USCIS to Implement- with Efren Hernandez, Former USCIS Policy Leader & Founder-EH3 Immigration Consulting is an episode from Tahmina Talks Immigration by Tahmina Watson.

This episode is 38:49 long.

This episode was published on Sep 30, 2025.

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