In a major announcement signed by the United States President Donald Trump on Friday (local time), companies appointing foreign employees on H -1B visas will now have to pay the government to pay $ 100,000 to start from September 21.
Tusrap Claimed that the H1-B program was being “systematically abused” and such an alleged misconduct is called “national security threat”.
H -1B There is a non-migrant visa that allows employers in the United States to appoint foreign workers in specialized businesses-such roles that require highly specific knowledge and at least bachelor’s degrees. It is widely used in industries such as information technology, finance and engineering. Both applicants and status should meet specific eligibility requirements.
Also read: The H -1B visa fee is more than the annual salary of most H -1B visa holders
Here is the complete text of the announcement signed by the United States President Donald Trump-
“H-1B non-migrant visa program was designed to bring temporary workers to the United States, which was done to perform adorable, high-skilled tasks, but it has been replaced in a large scale with lower-inferior, low-inferior labor, instead of supplement, instead of supplement, to replace it intentionally, instead of complement. There is a harmful labor market for citizens, while attracting and maintaining the highest skilled subsets of temporary workers at the same time is more difficult, the greatest impact in important science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) areas.
The number of foreign STEM workers in the United States exceeds double between 2000 and 2019, which has increased from 1.2 million to about 2.5 million, while overall STEM employment has increased only 44.5 percent during that time. In computer and mathematics businesses, the workforce’s foreign stake increased from 17.7 percent in 2000 to 26.1 percent in 2019. And this has been misused by the leading facility H -1B visa for this arrival of foreign stem labor.
Information Technology (IT) firms have specifically manipulated the H -1B system, which causes great damage to American workers in computer -related areas. IT workers’ stake in the H -1B program increased from 32 percent in the financial year (FY) to an average of more than 65 percent in the last 5 financial years. In addition, some of the most Vipul H -1B employers are now continuously from IT outsourcing companies. The use of these H1B-3-3 IT outsourcing companies leads to significant savings for employers: a study by technical workers showed a 36 percent discount for the H-1B “entry-level” posts compared to full-time, traditional workers. To avail artificially low labor costs encouraged by the program, companies close their IT divisions, fire their American employees, and outsource IT jobs to low-paying foreign workers.
In addition, the misuse of the H-1B visa program has made it more challenging for college graduates, trying to find IT jobs, allowing employers to appoint foreign workers at significant discounts. These effects of misuse of H -1B visas match with increasing challenges in the labor market that serves H -1B workers. According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, large companies of computer science and computer engineering are facing some highest unemployment rates in the country at 6.1 percent and 7.5 percent respectively – among the college graduates between 22 and 27 years of age – more than the unemployment rate of recent biology and art history. Recent data shows that the unemployment rate among workers in computer businesses increased from an average of 1.98 percent in 2019 to 3.02 percent in 2025.
Reports also reveal that many American technical companies have closed their eligible and highly skilled American workers as well as hiring thousands of H -1B workers. A software company was approved for more than 5,000 H -1B workers in FY 2025; At the same time, it announced a series of total trimming of more than 15,000 employees. Another IT firm was approved for about 1,700 H -1B workers in FY 2025; It was announced that it was shutting down 2,400 American workers in Oregon in July. A third company has reduced its workforce by about 27,000 American workers since 2022, while it has been approved for more than 25,000 H -1B workers since FY 2022. A fourth company abolished 1,000 jobs in February; It was approved for more than 1,100 H -1B workers for FY 2025.
American IT activists have reported that they were forced to train foreign workers who were taking their jobs and signing non -solution agreements about this resentment as a position to achieve any form. This suggests that H -1B visas are not being used to fill commercial deficiency or to achieve highly skilled workers who are unavailable in the United States.
The H -1B program reduces the integrity of the relatively low -paid workers and is harmful to the wages and labor opportunities of American workers, especially in the entry level, in industries where such low -paying H -1B workers are concentrated. These abuses prevent American employers from using the H -1B program in other industries, the way it intended: to fill jobs for which highly skilled and educated American workers are unavailable.
The misuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat. Domestic law enforcement agencies have identified and investigated H -1B -Rilatic outsourcing companies to engage in visa fraud, conspiracy of money, conspiracy under racket -affected and corrupt organizations, and to encourage other illegal activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States.
In addition, the abuses of the H-1B program presented a national security threat by discouraging the Americans from discouraging the pursuit of career in science and technology, risking the US leadership in these areas. A 2017 study has shown that wages for American computer scientists would have been 2.6 percent to 5.1 percent higher and for American workers employment in computer science would be 6.1 percent to 10.8 percent more in 2001, which absorbs the import of foreign workers in the computer science sector.
Therefore it is necessary to pay high costs on companies seeking to use the H-1B program to address the misuse of that program, while still allows companies to keep the best temporary foreign workers at the best.
Serious loss of large -scale misconduct of this program has been provoked on our economic and national security, which demands immediate response. So I think some foreign workers described in Section 1 of this announcement will be harmful to the interests of the United States in the United States as such entry will damage American workers, which will include by reducing their wages.
Accordingly, by the Authority of the United States by the Constitution and laws of the United States, it has been ordered by the Authority of me:
Section 1. Ban on entry. (A) According to Sections 212 (F) and 215 (A) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 USC 1182 (F) and 1185 (A), entry into the United States as admission to the United States, entry into the United States to perform services in a particular business to showcase services in a particular business to perform services in a particular business. (I) (B), restricted, except for aliens whose petitions are with or complementary with a payment of $ 100,000 – subject to the exceptions prescribed in sub -section (C) of this section.
(B) Secretary of Homeland Security, Section 101 (A) (15) (H) (H) (H) (I) (I) (B) for H -1B Specialty Occupation Workers with a payment of $ 100,000 to the petitions with a payment of $ 100,000, which is currently out of the United States, for 12 months after the effective date of this section. The state secretaries will also issue guidance to the border required and allowed by the law, so that the employment starting before October 1, 2026 is the date of starting employment by foreign beneficiaries of the approved H -1B petitions.
(C) The restrictions imposed for subdivisions (A) and (B) of this section will not apply to any individual foreigners, all the aliens working for a company, or all the aliens working in an industry, if the Hiring of H -B -1 B Special Operations is working as a discretion of the Secretary of Homeland Security.
Sec. 2. compliance. (A) Employers, before the United States filed an H -1B petition on behalf of a foreigner, before receiving and maintaining the documents show that the payment described in Section 1 of this announcement has been made.
(B) State Secretary H -1B will verify the receipt of the payment of the amount described in Section 1 of this announcement during the visa petition process and will only approve the visa petitions for which the filing employer has paid the payment described in Section 1 of this announcement.
(C) Homeland Security Department and State Department will coordinate to implement this announcement and take all necessary and appropriate action to deny admission to the United States, for which the potential employer has not paid the payment described in Section 1 of this announcement.
Sec. 3. The scope and implementation of the ban on entry. (A) Ban on entry to Section 1 of this announcement will only apply to those aliens only after the effective date of this announcement determined in Section 1 (A) of this announcement.
(B) Not after 30 days after the completion of H -1B lottery, which immediately follows this announcement, the Secretary, Attorney General, Labor Secretary, and the Secretary of Homeland Security will jointly submit to the President through a recommendation through the President and Assistant of Homeland Security Advisors, which is a recommendation for an expansion or renewal.
Sec. 4. Amendment in prevailing wage levels. (A) Section 212 (n) of Labor Secretary, INA, 8 usC will initiate a rule to amend the wage levels prevalent for the levels for the levels of this announcement to suit Section 212 (n) of this announcement.
(B) The Secretary, Homeland Security will initiate a rule to prioritize entry as non-informants of high-efficient and high-to-pay aliens, which corresponds to INA’s section 101, 212, and 216, 8 USC 1101, 11 and2, and 11, 4.
Sec. 5. general Provisions. (A) Nothing will be impaired or otherwise affected in this announcement:
(i) Authority given by law to an executive department or agency, or its head; Or
(ii) Work of Budget, Administrative, or Director of Management and Budget Office related to legislative proposals.
(B) This announcement will be implemented in accordance with the applied law and subjected to the availability of appropriation.
(C) The purpose of this proclamation has not been implemented by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or institutions, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person in law or in equity, and no right, original or procedural, in law, and not.
In the witness, I have set my hand here
On the nineteenth day of September, two thousand twenty five in the year of our Lord, and two hundred and fifty of the United States independence.
Donald J. Trump “
