The US announced on Thursday (local time) that it will stop issuing work visas for commercial truck drivers, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Thursday at X.
“We will immediately stop all issuing work visas for drivers of commercial trucks,” said Rubio.
Rubi’s statement came after a violent crash concerning a driver from India, killed three people.
The truck driver, Harjinder Singh, was accused of three murders. The police said he tried to carry out an illegal rotation of “official use” only the access point blocking the operation and cause a fatal accident that resulted in the death of three people in a minivan hit by a truck.
What will happen to the staff visas for truckers already used?
Trump’s administration suspends all issuing of work visas for foreign truck drivers
The US Foreign Ministry later stated on Thursday that the processing of these work visas would stop to review its “screenings and screening protocols”.
A spokesman for the Foreign Ministry said that the pause was carried out “to perform a comprehensive and thorough review of protocols for screening and checks used to determine their qualifications for the US visa”.
According to CBS reports, the spokesman noted that “it applies to all nationals and is not focused on any particular country”.
Foreign truckers in the US usually work on H-2B visa, Kopec said.
“Truck drivers have to speak English”
In June, Transport Minister SEAN Duffy issued a directive that trucks must speak English.
Truck drivers in the US are obliged to pass a commercial license test, which has long been a assessment of whether they are proficient in English about the basics such as road marks.
In recent months, Trump’s administration has taken steps to promote the request that truckers speak and read English well.
Transport department said that the aim is to improve road safety after incidents in which drivers can read grades or speak English to death from transport.
“Lack of truck driver in us”
The department did not immediately answer the question of the number of foreign truck drivers working in the US.
Edward Alden, the manager of the Council for Foreign Relations, said foreign workers helped solve the lack of work drivers of trucks.
According to American Trucking Association, a business group, the industry faces a shortage of about 60,000 drivers.
According to federal statistics cited by the news agency AFP, the number of trucks born abroad in the United States has more than doubled.
So far, in 2025 the budget year was issued 1,490 H-2B visas for truckers. Last year, the government issued 1,400 such visas, Bloomberg informed.
According to reports, drivers born abroad now make up 18 percent of industry-in accordance with the American labor market as a whole.
According to industrial groups, more than half of Latin America come from Latin America from Latin America with considerable numbers from India and Eastern European nations, especially in Ukraine.
Rubio, who quoted the reasons behind the movement, said: “The growing number of foreign drivers operating large trucks on American roads threatens American lives and undermines the livelihood of American truckers.”
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