Trump Adds $100,000 Fee for Skilled Worker Visa

Saturday, September 20, 2025

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will add a $100,000 (74,000) fee for applicants to the H-1B visa programme aimed at bringing in skilled workers from abroad into certain industries. Th

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Trump hits H-1B visas, a tech industry favorite, with $100,000 fee

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This is actually ONE thing I can support Trump doing.

If you honestly NEED someone with a tech background that you can't find anywhere in the US, you can pay that $100,000 no problem.

Too often they are used for entry level positions or small shops that hire the foreign worker and just farm them out to large companies as a contractor.

What they should do is offer more H-1B Visas IF they keep the $100,000 per year fee going.

#1 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-09-19 10:12 PM | Reply

Is it retroactive? Will 1Nut have to borrow 100K from his ICE Emergency Deportation Fund?

Inquiring minds want to know!

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-19 10:24 PM | Reply

Will 1Nut have to borrow 100K from his ICE Emergency Deportation Fund?

I am not H1B but regardless it wouldn't be a problem.

What they should do is offer more H-1B Visas IF they keep the $100,000 per year fee going.
#1 | POSTED BY SYCOPHANT

Well it should all balance out. For the sake of recent STEM graduates, I hope it opens up positions for them.

Too often they are used for entry level positions or small shops that hire the foreign worker and just farm them out to large companies as a contractor.

Its unfortunate many Americans like Corky don't understand this.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-20 03:19 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Well it should all balance out. For the sake of recent STEM graduates, I hope it opens up positions for them.

#3 | Posted by oneironaut at 2025-09-20 03:19 AM | Reply | Flag: PPPPFFFFTTTTTTTT

It has already been demonstrated...

Companies don't want to pay what Americans NEED to earn.

Companies will move offshore... they have no borders...

Capitalism is dependent on slavery...

Billionaires have no borders which is why you can't expect patriotism from them.

The world doesn't need the United States... we lose wars... the rest of the stuff they can give themselves.

#4 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-09-20 08:18 AM | Reply

ppppsssssttttttt we've been cyber attacked... who can we call that we haven't already ticked off?

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-09-20 08:21 AM | Reply

I approve of this move.

Back in 2005, while visiting a friend in Manhattan, I asked about the 40+ floors in his tower seemingly filled with people wearing traditional Indian garb.

He told me at the time that Wall Street had laid off thousands of Americans and replaced them with H-1B visa holders.

There were Americans doing those jobs. Wall Street wasn't hurting. Just to save money on American tech employees? Just wrong.

#6 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2025-09-20 08:38 AM | Reply

So out of that, how much does the dump get?

#7 | Posted by bat4255 at 2025-09-20 09:33 AM | Reply

#3 |

Americans like Corky were in the Silicon Valley specializing in software design talent when you were being born into a closed Communist society with birth limits and high walls.

#8 | Posted by Corky at 2025-09-20 01:58 PM | Reply

Agreed but I think he made the fee so high in order to insure it won't succeed. I view everything he does on immigration as a political stunt. Repubs want immigrants and undocumented workers more than democrats. The whole get tough approach is meant to deflect away from the fact that their crackdown is not interfering with very many undocumented worker employers.

#9 | Posted by danS at 2025-09-20 04:41 PM | Reply

"Capitalism is dependent on slavery...

Are you thinking of the Roman Empire?

#10 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-09-22 09:28 AM | Reply