Tuesday, September 30, 2025

Analysis: New $100K H-1B visa fee to cost US tech billions

The new H-1B visa fee to sponsor workers in the US will create a multi-billion-dollar annual burden for the tech industry and likely drive tech innovation shifts to India, Eastern Europe and Latin America as companies redirect investments, according to new research.

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... Earlier this month, President Donald J. Trump announced a presidential proclamation reform to the H-1B visa program: every new H-1B visa petition must include a one-time, $100,000 fee per sponsored worker. The fee applies only to new petitions -- not renewals or current visa holders.

The H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that allows US employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations (such as tech, engineering, finance). Each year, the program brings in 85,000 high-skilled high-paid professionals to help power the US economy.

With the new fee, the high cost of H-1B talent in late 2025 and 2026 will likely force employers to scale back their use of cross-border talent and -- perhaps -- projects, experts say. ...


#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-30 09:29 PM

So, yet another apparent headline-grabbing pronouncement of Pres Trump trying to reduce the Trump super-deficit [a.k.a., billionaire tax-reductions] may have longer-term implications that his transactional headline approach may show?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-09-30 09:32 PM

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