Donald Trump’s announcement on Friday that his administration will impose an annual fee of $ 100,000 on H1-B VISA applications that allow foreign workers in special recordings to work in the United States, have sent industries and governments to a spiral of confusion. With the policy set to take effect on Sunday, Big Tech companies allegedly tell H-1B holders in their workforce to either remain in the US or return from abroad before the new policy is adopted, according to CNBC.
According to the report, Amazon sent a memo to his employees who advised workers for an H-1B or H-4 visa-owners (given to dependent family members to H-1B workers) to return from abroad before 10.00. 12:01 one on September 21 Microsoft could allegedly issue a similar message that employees that Trump administration’s policy is “structured as a travel restriction” and international travel could set their working status. It advised H-1B-visum holders to cancel future travel plans and remain in the US “in the foreseeable future.”
Technical companies are by far the largest users of the H-1B visa program. Five of the six top employers from H-1B workers are Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google, according to data from citizenship and immigration services. According to the new rules, which would either require the H-1B visa holder or their sponsor to pay $ 100,000 annually to keep the work permit active, Amazon could in theory star down at a $ 1 billion bill each year to keep the more than 10,000 H-1B visa holders as it currently employs in its workstock.
But Tech is also far from the only industry that counts with specialized labor from abroad. According to the business standard, over 30% of medical residents of the United States are international candidates, and between 10,000 to 43,000 places of residence are currently filled with H-1B visa holders. There is an ongoing medical shortage in the country that was expected to worsen without new restrictions. The Association of American Medical College projected a shortage of 20,200 to 40,400 primary care in 2036, before the new H-1B fees.
Nor is it just industry players fooling out. Foreign governments are encrypted to respond to the new policy with a little lead time to sort through all the details. “This measure is likely to have humanitarian consequences by means of the disturbance caused by families. The government hopes these disorders can be treated appropriately by the US authorities,” the Ministry of India’s external affairs said in a statement. South Korea’s Foreign Ministry also said it sorts the potential consequences for Korean workers per day. CNBC.
The Trump administration, as it has become usual for its political prescriptions, spends the day trying to sort the poorly defined information it originally provided. Axios reported that officials have clarified that the new H-1B visa fees do not apply to existing holders of valid visas who re-enter the country, so workers must be able to get back to the country without being hit with a $ 100,000 fee. Reportedly, the fee will not take effect until the next cycle of new applicants for the H-1B program. Whether visa owners want to risk taking this administration on its word is another question.