US proposes upping H-1B visa fee to more than $100,000
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented more than $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers that Trump first imposed last year but has been blocked by the courts. The fee first imposed by Trump in a temporary proclamation last year vastly raises the cost of the visas that are heavily relied on in the tech,…
The U.S. government has proposed a significant increase in the fee for H-1B visas, which allow highly skilled foreign workers to enter the country. The new fee, proposed at over $100,000, is more than ten times the current cost and would make the visas much more expensive for employers to obtain. This fee was first imposed by President Donald Trump in a temporary proclamation last year, but was blocked by a federal judge in June.
The proposal, issued by the Department of Homeland Security, comes as the temporary fee remains in place pending further court decisions. The proposed $103,265 fee will be open to public comment for 30 days before being formally published.
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