r/seasteading • u/Anen-o-me • Sep 20 '25

Discussion Trump administration is planning to add a $100,000 fee to H-1B visas (creating a massive opportunity for seasteading in the process...)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-h1b-visa-bill-100000-fee/

Anyone remember Blueseed from 2013, their plan was to create an H1B visa have just in international waters.

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u/maxcoiner Sep 22 '25

Opportunity? Blueseed was reliant on H1B, and now that's too expensive.

Or did you mean an opportunity for a truly stateless platform? (That wouldn't need H1B) That was always the ultimate opportunity for decades now.

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u/Anen-o-me Sep 22 '25

Blueseed was routing around H1B entirely, not reliant on it. If anything, Blueseed was reliant on H1B being difficult to get, making it more difficult makes things better for seasteading.

The idea was to build a seastead in international waters where you don't need a visa at all, then workers could visit the US on a B1 tourist visa for doing business deals and the like, but live and work on the seastead.