Trump expected to add new $100,000 fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

U.S. President Donald Trump plans to present a caller $100,000 exertion interest for H-1B idiosyncratic visas, according to a White House official, successful an effort to trim their usage arsenic portion of his broader migration crackdown.

The Republican president was expected to motion a proclamation arsenic aboriginal arsenic Friday restricting introduction nether the H-1B visa programme unless the exertion interest is paid, the authoritative said. Trump besides planned to bid changes to the prevailing-wage levels for the H-1B programme arsenic a mode to bounds their use.

The H-1B programme has go captious for exertion and staffing companies who trust connected overseas workers to capable a assortment of method roles.

Amazon had implicit 10,000 H-1B visas approved successful 2025, portion Microsoft and Meta Platforms had implicit 5,000 H-1B visa approvals each, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Bloomberg News earlier reported Trump's volition to motion the bid regarding H-1B visa applications.

Shares of Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp, an IT services institution that relies extensively connected H-1B visa holders, fell implicit 5% connected Friday.

Critics of the visas, including galore American exertion workers, reason companies usage H-1B visa workers to suppress wages and walk implicit Americans for jobs they whitethorn different beryllium qualified for.

India was the largest beneficiary of H-1B visas past year, accounting for 71% of approved beneficiaries, portion China was a distant 2nd astatine 11.7%, according to authorities data.

The H-1B visa programme is reserved for radical who are employed successful specialty occupations, often successful the exertion field. They tin see bundle engineers, tech programme managers and different IT professionals. The H-1B visas are approved for a play of 3 to six years.