Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said Wednesday that his family's migration to the U.S. "would not person been possible" with the Trump administration's existent policy.
President Donald Trump announced successful September that employers would person to wage a $100,000 interest for each H-1B visa, a impermanent idiosyncratic visa granted to overseas professionals with specialized skills.
Huang, who was calved successful Taiwan and aboriginal moved Thailand, immigrated to the U.S. astatine 9 years aged with his brother. His parents joined them astir 2 years later.
"I don't deliberation that my household would person been capable to spend the $100,000 and and truthful the accidental for my, my household and for maine to beryllium present ... would not person been possible," Huang told CNBC's "Squawk Box."
Trump's abrupt terms hike was a shock to the tech sector, which relies heavy connected overseas talent, particularly from India and China.
Amazon was the apical leader for H-1B holders successful fiscal twelvemonth 2025, sponsoring implicit 10,000 applicants according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Tech juggernauts Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google were besides among the apical H-1B employers, with implicit 4,000 approvals each.
"Immigration is the instauration of the American dream," Huang said, "this perfect that anyone tin travel to America and done hard enactment and immoderate talent, beryllium capable to physique a amended aboriginal for yourself."
Huang added that his ain parents came to the U.S. truthful that his household could "enjoy the opportunities" and "this unthinkable country."
The CEO confirmed that Nvidia, which presently sponsors 1,400 visas, would proceed covering H-1B fees for migrant employees. Huang said that helium hopes to spot immoderate "enhancements" to the argumentation truthful that there's "still immoderate opportunities for serendipity to happen."
While his ain family's travel would person been blocked by Trump's migration policy, Huang said Trump's changes volition inactive let the U.S. "to proceed to pull the world's champion talent."
And different tech executives person expressed enactment for the changes, with Netflix's Reed Hastings calling the interest "a large solution" successful a station connected X.
"It volition mean H1-B is utilized conscionable for precise precocious worth jobs, which volition mean nary lottery needed, and much certainty for those jobs," Hastings wrote.
In September, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman told CNBC's Jon Fortt that helium besides backed Trump's changes.
"We request to get the smartest radical successful the country, and streamlining that process and besides benignant of outlining fiscal incentives seems bully to me," Altman said.
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