Trump connects $ 100,000 fees for a skilled worker visa

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order adding annual fees worth $ 100,000 (74,000 pounds) to applicants to the H-1B visa program for foreign workers.

Trump is mentioned “abuse” of the program and it will restrict entry unless the payment is made.

Critics have long argued that H -1BS undermines the American workforce, while supporters – including billionaire Elon Musk – argue that it allows the United States to attract the best talents from all over the world.

In another arrangement, Trump created a new “gold card” for quick visas for some immigrants for fees that start from one million pounds.

Trump is scheduled to enter into force on September 21. US Secretary of Trade Howard Lottennik said this will only apply to new requests, but companies must pay the same amount for each applicant for a period of six years.

He said: “The company needs to decide … He is the person with value enough to get a batch of $ 100,000 annually to the government, or they must go home, and they must rent an American,” adding: “All major companies are on board.”

Since 2004, H-1B requests have been crowned at 85,000 a year.

To date, H-1B visas have carried many administrative fees that total about $ 1500.

USCIS’s Citizenship and Immigration Services data shows that H-1B visas requests for the next fiscal year decreased to about 359,000-minimum levels of four years.

The greatest beneficiaries of the program in the previous fiscal year was Amazon, followed by Tata Technology Giants, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google, according to government statistics.

Tahmina Watson, the lawyer for the Immigration Law in Watson, BBC, told the “coffin nail” to many of its customers, most of whom are small companies and startups.

“Almost everyone will be priced. This will be $ 100,000 as a point of entry will have a devastating effect,” she added, noting that many small or medium -sized companies “will tell you that they cannot find workers to do the task.”

Ms. Watson added: “When employers sponsor foreign talents, often, they do so because they were unable to fulfill these situations.”

Jorge Lopez, head of the global immigration and mobility practices group at Littler Mendelson PC, said fees worth $ 100,000 “will put the brakes on American competitiveness in the technology sector and all industries.”

He added that some companies may consider establishing operations outside the United States, although doing this may be a challenge in practice.

The debate about H-1BS has already caused splits within the Trump team and their supporters, which led to the preference of these visas against critics, such as the former strategy Steve Bannon.

Trump told reporters at the White House in January that he understood the “sides of the argument” on H-1BS.

In the previous year – while seeking to attract support from the technology industry while he was on the campaign path – Trump pledged to make talents to attract easier, in order to suggest green cards for university graduates.

“You need a group of people to work for companies.” “You should be able to recruit these people and keep these people.”

Early of his first term in 2017, Trump signed an executive thing that increases the audit of H-1B applications, and seeks to improve the discovery of fraud.

Rejection increased to the highest level ever by 24 % in the fiscal year 2018, compared to between 5 % and 8 % under Barack Obama and then between 2 % and 4 % under the atmosphere of Biden.

At that time, technology companies retreated, and were harshly criticized by the H-1B of Trump’s management.

The possibility of additional restrictions in the H-1B program caused In countries like India It is so large, the largest country source for these visa applications.