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Mr. Trump on Friday (September 19, 2025) signed the proclamation ‘Restriction on entry of sure non-immigrant staff’ that restricts the entry into the U.S. of these staff whose H-1B petitions will not be accompanied or supplemented by a fee of $1,00,000.
“The H-1B non-immigrant visa programme was created to convey momentary staff into the United States to carry out additive, high-skilled capabilities, but it surely has been intentionally exploited to switch, fairly than complement, American staff with lower-paid, lower-skilled labour,” Mr. Trump mentioned within the proclamation.
“The abuse of the H-1B programme can also be a nationwide safety menace. Domestic legislation enforcement companies have recognized and investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing corporations for partaking in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder cash… and different illicit actions to encourage international staff to come back to the United States,” he mentioned within the proclamation.
Mr. Trump mentioned that it’s essential to impose larger prices on corporations in search of to make use of the H-1B programme in an effort to handle the abuse of that programme whereas nonetheless allowing corporations to rent the perfect of the perfect momentary international staff.
“The extreme harms that the large-scale abuse of this programme has inflicted on our financial and nationwide safety demand a right away response. I due to this fact discover that the unrestricted entry into the United States of sure international staff” can be detrimental to the pursuits of the United States as a result of such entry would hurt American staff, together with by undercutting their wages,” the proclamation mentioned.
Mr. Trump ordered that the Secretary of Homeland Security shall prohibit selections on petitions not accompanied by a $1,00,000 fee for H-1B speciality occupation staff, who’re presently exterior the United States, for 12 months following the efficient date of the proclamation, which is September 21, 2025.
The Secretary of State shall additionally problem steering, as needed and to the extent permitted by legislation, to forestall misuse of B visas by alien beneficiaries of accredited H-1B petitions which have an employment begin date starting previous to October 1, 2026.
It mentioned the restrictions shall not apply to any particular person or these working for an organization or in an business, whether it is decided that the hiring of such people to be employed as H-1B speciality occupation staff is within the nationwide curiosity and doesn’t pose a menace to the safety or welfare of the United States.
The Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State shall coordinate to take all needed and applicable motion to implement this proclamation and to disclaim entry to the United States to any H-1B non-immigrant for whom the potential employer has not made the fee.
The restriction on entry shall apply solely to these people who enter or try to enter the United States after September 21, 2025.
Mr. Trump mentioned the large-scale substitute of American staff by means of systemic abuse of the programme has undermined each American financial and nationwide safety.
“Some employers, utilizing practices now extensively adopted by whole sectors, have abused the H-1B statute and its laws to artificially suppress wages, leading to a disadvantageous labour marketplace for American residents, whereas on the identical time making it tougher to draw and retain the best expert subset of momentary staff, with the most important affect seen in essential science, know-how, engineering, and math (STEM) fields,” Mr. Trump mentioned.
The proclamation mentioned that Information know-how corporations particularly have prominently manipulated the H-1B system, considerably harming American staff in computer-related fields.
Noting that the share of IT staff within the H-1B programme grew from 32% in Fiscal Year 2003 to a median of over 65% within the final 5 fiscal years, the proclamation mentioned that a few of the most prolific H-1B employers are actually persistently IT outsourcing corporations.
It mentioned that abuse of the H-1B visa programme has made it much more difficult for school graduates looking for IT jobs, permitting employers to rent international staff at a big low cost to American staff.
The proclamation cited excessive unemployment charges amongst pc science and pc engineering majors and mentioned many American tech corporations have laid off their certified and extremely expert American staff and concurrently employed 1000’s of H-1B staff.
The proclamation additionally cited the instance of a software program firm that was accredited for over 5,000 H-1B staff in FY 2025, and which, across the identical time, introduced a sequence of layoffs totalling greater than 15,000 staff.
It additionally mentioned that American IT staff have reported they had been compelled to coach the international staff who had been taking their jobs and to signal nondisclosure agreements about this “indignity” as a situation of receiving any type of severance.
