US President Donald Trump has signed an administrative order to add $ 100,000 (£ 74,000) annual fees for applicants for H-1B visa programs for skilled foreign workers.
Trump’s command mentions the “abuse” of the program and restricts the position unless you pay.
Critics have long weakened H -1B weakened US labor, while supporters, including the billionaire Elon Musk, argued that the United States could attract the world’s best talent.
In another order, Trump exchanged with a fee that started at £ 1 million to set a new “Gold Card” for certain immigrants.
Trump’s command will take effect on September 21. Howard Root Lutnick, the US Minister of Commerce, said it applies only to new requests, but the company said it should pay the same amount for each applicant for six years.
“The company must make a decision … It is worth to pay $ 100,000 annually to the government, and should go home and hire Americans.”
Since 2004, the number of H-1B applications has been limited to 85,000 per year.
So far, the H-1B visa has carried a total of $ 1,500 a variety of administrative fees.
According to data from US citizenship and immigration service (USCIS), the application for H-1B visa in fiscal year next year has fallen to about 359,000 at the lowest level of four years.
According to government statistics, Amazon was the biggest beneficiary of the last fiscal year program, followed by Tech Giants Tata, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google.
Late on Friday, Amazon said he remained there to employees with H-1B visas in the United States.
According to the internal advice by Business Insider, the company said, “If possible, you have to come back before tomorrow’s deadline.”
Those who can’t come back before the command should not try to re -enter, “until the additional guidelines are provided.” The company is also cited in words.
Tahmina Watson, founding lawyer of Watson Immigration Law, said that the ruling on the BBC could be a “coffin nail” to many customers, a small and new companies.
“Almost everyone will be priced. This $ 100 will be a deadly impact,” she added. “I will say that many small and medium -sized companies can actually find workers to work,” she added.
“We are doing so because the employer could not fulfill the place when the employer sponsored foreign talents.”
Jorge Lopez, chairman of the immigration and global mobility working group of Little Mendelson PC, said $ 100,000 commissions, “brakes the US competitiveness in the technical and all industries.”
Some companies can consider setting up operations outside the United States, but it can actually be difficult.
The debate over the H-1B had previously divided in the Trump team and supporters, and gave birth to those who were in favor of critics such as Steve Bannon.
Trump told the White House journalists in January that he understood both “both of the debate.”
While trying to attract the technology industry during the previous year’s campaign trail, Trump vowed to swear the process of attracting talents to propose a permanent residence to college graduates.
“You need people to work in the company,” he told all-in podcast. “You must be able to recruit these people and maintain these people.”
At the beginning of 2017, Trump signed an administrative order to increase the investigation into H-1B applications to improve fraud detection.
Rejection rose to 24%in the 2018 fiscal year, with 5%to 8%of BARACK OBAMA and 2%to 4%under Joe Biden.
At that time, the technology company resigned backwards, criticizing the Trump administration’s H-1B command.
The possibility of further restrictions on the H -1B program has caused significant concerns in countries such as India, which is the largest source country in this visa application.
