Satish, a postgraduate student from India, who is studying in San Francisco, thought that this autumn he would be about completing his business title, and then the H-1B visa, a work permit that became the basis of qualified immigrants in the US.
Instead, he is worried about her ability to build a career in the US as he tries to understand the Trump administration plan to increase the H-1B fee to $ 100,000.
“When someone moves here, they are moving with the motif of hard work and building something better,” said Satish, who, like many, asked, asked their full names to be detained and said they were afraid to draw attention to their status or complicate their future plans. “With everything that is happening, no one is willing to speak anything. They are afraid of their statuses.”
President Donald Trump was bursting a new six -digit fee in his efforts to protect US jobs and national security. However, his announcement was triggered by companies that have long relied on the program to bring global talent, especially in the California technology economy that relies on trained computer programmers, data analysts and engineers.
Sudden change – with a new policy that will come into force on Sunday – and initial confusion about whether the fee would apply to the current visa holders added to chaos, warning employees to return to the US immediately and stay overseas.
One day after the announcement of Trump White House explained that the fee will only apply to new candidates starting in the next lottery cycle, but the update has little to calm down the fears of visa holders.
Many large companies also have assessing what this will mean for their recruitment plans.
Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Apple Inc. and meta platforms Inc. They employ thousands of H-1B visa holders, while Stanford University and Hospital Hospital after the University of California-SE system also relies on recruitment and researchers.
For international postgraduate students, the visa is a key way to the remaining in the US after completing school. Of the 85,000 visa issued each year, 20,000 are earmarked for advanced American title holders with a master’s or higher. In demand always exceeds the supply – more than 470,000 people were used in the fiscal year of 2025.
In the past, some business groups demanded H1-B reforms and said it was excessively used by outsourcing companies, while others sought to expand, including quotas lifting to fulfill a critical lack of work.
When Trump’s announcement came, it did not give companies or lawyers to prepare.
“It was timed to create a pandemonium,” said Karin Wolman, an immigration lawyer based on New York. She described the measures as illegal because the fees should be bound to the cost of processing and are subject to the process of public commentary.
“The intended effect is to make an H-1B unreachable for the basic level of fresh university or college and reduce its availability to the most higher professionals with very large employers with a lot of money,” Wolman said. “No one else can afford it – startups, small companies, non -profit organizations, universities, hospitals. The impact on health care will be devastating.”
At the International Airport in San Francisco – the main entrance to the technical scene and the best schools in the Bay Area – uncertainty and confusion was obvious outside Silicon Valley. Public employees, doctors and temporary visa students said they were trying to understand how the change could affect.
Some have already invented their mind. Satish said he knew of at least two dozen acquaintances who planned to fly to India as a result of the announcement. Others withdrew from social media and feared that their online chat could complicate their status. Trump’s administration added to some aspects of the process of confirming the visa screening of social media.
Many of them turned to YouTube and social media personalities, such as Yash Mitra and Soundarya Balasubrans who have built great consequences among immigrants who are trying to navigate American political changes.
For Hari B., who works for Rancho Cordova, just before the California capital of Sacramento, the news raised his concerns about the H1-B holder since he passed the process himself. He first came to the US six years ago on H-1B and paid about $ 6,000 at sponsorship costs. Now he earns a government salary, far below what a technical worker can order, he said.
“We are not as comparable as technical workers,” he said after landing at the airport in San Fransisco, where he learned about the proposal. “I started earning $ 50,000 and looking at $ 100,000 just to sponsor my application, it is very unreal.”
Hari said his friends immediately contacted him and asked if his previous visa status could complicate his ability to travel, and emphasize the uncertainty that spreads rapidly through immigrants circles.
Changes in H-1B visa are likely to have a longer-term effect. NS, a Turkish medical graduate, said in the US on the J-1 visa for medical residences and is now on the temporary visa B-1. He planned to leave the US for several years and then ask for an H-1B, but the change in the fee was only the last reminder of how unstable the rules could be, he said.
This article was generated from an automated news agency without text modifications.
(Tagstotranslate) H-1b Visa
