Trump’s $100K H-1B fee fuels stress for employees and employers

By Andrew Mendez, Georgia Hall and Agnee Ghosh
Published Updated 6 Min Read

Students take part in an online assessment session during a college recruitment event at the GL Bajaj Institute of Technology & Management in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India.

Satish, a graduate student from India studying in San Francisco, thought this fall would be about finishing his business degree and then lining up an H-1B visa, the work permit that’s become a mainstay for skilled immigrants in the U.S.

Instead, he’s worried about his ability to build a career in the U.S. as he tries to make sense of the Trump administration’s plan to raise the H-1B application fee to $100,000.

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio

Andrew Mendez, Georgia Hall and Agnee Ghosh

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