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New $100K H-1B Fee Sparks Concern in Healthcare and Immigration Sectors
The Trump administration's $100,000 fee targets new H-1B visa petitions to promote U.S. worker hiring, affecting over 13,000 Indian tech employees in 2025, USCIS data shows.
- On September 21, 2025, the White House announced a $100,000 fee on initial H-1B petitions and USCIS reversed its 2018 policy allowing denials for technical errors.
- Amid calls to curb foreign labor inflows, officials said the fee aims to make importing skilled foreign workers more expensive and push employers to hire American workers.
- Higher-Education and research institutions in Virginia rely heavily on H-1B visas, with the University of Virginia employing the most foreign experts, and Virginia employers secured nearly 110,000 approvals from 2021–2025.
- Advisories and employer warnings prompted many workers to cancel travel, while Amazon and other big tech told foreign employees to avoid trips or return immediately.
- The public comment period ends on Nov. 24 as DHS proposed weighting H-1B lottery entries by wage, while legal analysts question the $100,000 fee and expect firms to shift roles to global capability centres in India.
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New H-1B visa fees could stun Virginia companies, universities
Virginia’s businesses, nonprofits and schools employ thousands of foreign professionals. President Trump’s proclamation raising the cost of H-1B visas to $100,000 could send shockwaves through tech companies, universities and even public schools
Legal, Economic, and Strategic Analysis of the New US$100,000 Fee for H‑1B Petitions Filed from Outside the United States - Gateway Hispanic
A Presidential Proclamation, signed on September 19, 2025, established that as of September 21, 2025, nearly all new H‑1B visa petitions for workers outside the U.S. must include a supplemental fee of $100,000. If not paid, the petition will be denied. The measure is prospective in nature. It does not apply to petitions submitted or approved before the effective date, nor to current H‑1B holders for certain purposes, nor to renewals inside the U…
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