US President Donald Trump added an annual fee of $ 100,000 to H-1 specialists on Friday, creating potentially large effects for the technology industry in which such permits are productive.
The new measure, which could probably make legal challenges, was announced together with the introduction of a 1 million dollar program for “Gold Card” Residency, which Trump had introduced months earlier.
“The main thing is that we have great people and they will pay,” said Trump reporters when he signed the orders in the Oval Office.
With H-1B-VISA, companies can sponsor foreign employees with special skills such as scientists, engineers and computer programmers to work in the United States for three years, but to expand them to six years.
The United States Awards 85,000 H-1b-Visa per year for a lottery system, with the India losing around three quarters of the recipients.
Large technology companies rely on Indian workers who either move to the USA or come and go between the two countries.
Tech-entrepreneur-inch, who is warned by Trump's former Ally Elon Musk, before focusing on H-1b-Visa and explains that the United States do not have enough local talents to fill important job offers for the tech sector.
“All large companies are on board,” said commercial minister Howard Lutnick, who joined Trump in the Oval Office.
Trump has been targeting the H-1b program since its first term, but was on the verge of satisfying his previous approach, which aimed at the types of jobs that qualified. The current iteration has become the latest step in the most important immigration of his second term.
According to Trump's command, the fee is necessary for those who want to enter the country from Sunday. The secretary of the home protection is able to decrease individuals, entire companies or entire industries.
The order runs in one year, although Trump can expand it.
The number of H-1b-Visa applications has increased significantly in recent years, with a highlight of the approvals in 2022 as part of the democratic president Joe Biden.
In contrast, the height of the rejections in 2018 was recorded during Trump's first term in the White House.
The United States approved around 400,000 H-1b visa in 2024, two thirds of which were renewed.
Trump also signed an order to create a new accelerated path to the US residence for people who pay 1 million US dollars, or for company sponsors to pay 2 million dollars.
“I think it will be extremely successful,” added Trump.
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