{"id":657559,"date":"2026-08-25T15:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=657559"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:40:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:40:00","slug":"trump-admin-proposes-new-100k-h-1b-fee-to-offset-immigration-enforcement-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=657559","title":{"rendered":"Trump Admin Proposes New $100K H-1B Fee To Offset Immigration Enforcement Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Admin Proposes New $100K H-1B Fee To Offset Immigration Enforcement Costs<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Trump administration plans to charge employers a fee of $103,265 for H-1B skilled foreign workers,<\/strong> according to a proposed regulation posted on Monday. Revenue from the fee would be used to offset the costs of running the federal immigration system – including courts and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A similar $100,000 fee was shot down<\/a>\u00a0in June by an Obama-appointed federal judge <\/strong>in Massachusetts, after Trump attempted to implement it via presidential proclamation and 20 blue states went apeshit. The administration’s argument is that the H-1B program has been used to take jobs from Americans, and the additional fee would cause employers to consider the cost of just hiring Americans.<\/p>\n

Citing a working paper in the National Bureau of Economic Research, the new proposed regulation<\/strong> argues that the new fee would make employers “less likely to hire an H-1B worker over a qualified and highly-skilled American.” The paper found that\u00a0H1-B workers make on average around 15% less than American counterparts<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The program, passed by Congress in 1991, lets employers hire 65,000 skilled foreign workers per year – with an additional 20,000 visas available for workers who hold advanced degrees from US universities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new proposed regulation is set to publish in the Federal Register today – and would exempt some groups such as\u00a0most US colleges, universities and nonprofit hospitals<\/strong>\u00a0associated with academic institutions. Unlike last year’s proposal, this one would apply to many people already living in the US – not just new applications submitted from abroad.<\/p>\n

The new rule would also restrict a major pathway\u00a0used by tech companies<\/strong>. In recent years,\u00a0Amazon has received the most H-1B visas<\/strong>\u00a0– with over 9,300 approved petitions in FY2026 through June 30, the\u00a0Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0notes<\/a> – citing US Citizenship and Immigration Services data. Other companies using the H-1B program are India-based IT and outsourcing firms such as Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services, followed by American companies Apple and Microsoft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
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Trump Admin Proposes New $100K H-1B Fee To Offset Immigration Enforcement Costs The Trump administration plans to charge employers a fee of $103,265 for H-1B skilled foreign workers, according to a proposed regulation posted on Monday. Revenue from the fee would be used to offset the costs of running the federal immigration system – including… Continue reading Trump Admin Proposes New $100K H-1B Fee To Offset Immigration Enforcement Costs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":657560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/657560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}