President Donald Trump announced on Friday of annual costs of $ 100,000 for work visas widely used in the technological sector, with potentially important consequences for these companies that recruit Asia.
H-1B visas allow foreign workers precise grades (scientists, engineers and computer programmers, among others) to come and work in the United States. These work permits are fixed, an initial three -year period, which can be extended to six years, for foreigners sponsored by an employer.
Donald Trump has published his desire to limit them since his first term to give priority to US workers.
If they use foreign workers, “they have to pay $ 100,000 to the government and then pay their employee, it is not profitable,” he continued. “If you want to train someone, you will train a young graduate of one of the great universities in our country, you will train Americans and stop bringing people to take our job.”
The number of Visa H-1B applications has clearly progressed in recent years, with a peak acceptance in 2022 under the presidency of Democrat Joe Biden. In contrast, the rejection peak was recorded in 2018, during Donald Trump’s first passage to the White House.
Many Indians
The United States approved around 400,000 H-1B visas in 2024, two thirds of which were renovations.
The three quarters of the approved H-1B visa candidates are Indian nationals.
Large technological companies use a large number of Indian employees who go to the United States or go between the two countries.
Technological entrepreneurs, including Trump’s old ally, Elon Musk, previously warned of Visa H -1B orientation, saying that the United States does not have enough qualified work for the needs of the sector.
According to a copy of the decree signed by Donald Trump, costs will be required for those who seek to enter the country since Sunday, the Minister of Internal Security Kristi Noem that can exempt people, companies or entire sectors.
This announcement is added to an arsenal of anti -immigrant measures taken by the US president and his government, which also proceeds to massive expulsions of immigrants in an irregular situation.
Donald Trump also signed a decree creating a “golden” residence permit to one million dollars, referring to the famous “green card” that allows him to live and work in the United States.
“It will be a great success,” he predicted about this new system, which should allow foreign citizens “exceptional qualities” to obtain a “gold card.”
“Against the payment of one million dollars in the American Treasury, or, if a company sponsors them, two million dollars”, the candidates for this “Gold Card” “will benefit from an accelerated treatment of the visa procedure,” said a Donald Trump advisor.
Source: BFM TV
