File photo: Second judge blocks $100,000 visa fee A second US federal judge has blocked US President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, dealing another legal setback to the administration’s attempt to sharply increase the cost of the programme.US district judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled that … Read more
A proposed $103,265 H-1B visa fee could end up costing the US Treasury billions of dollars over the next decade if the steep increase prompts employers to reduce applications, according to a new analysis by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Research Center. H-1B visa fee could cost US Treasury $38 billion. (Representational photo) … Read more
The $100K OPT fee proposal has been cleared by White House. International students in the US are staring at a dramatic increase in the cost of working after graduation under a Trump administration proposal that has cleared the White House review. The proposal will soon become a rule and a $100,000 fee will be imposed … Read more
Immigration attorney explains the new H-1B fee proposal. The Donald Trump administration dropped another H-1B bombshell Monday as it tweaked the $100,000 H-1B fee and issued a draft rule increasing the fee to $103,265. The increase is not the main issue of the new proposal; in the new proposal, every H-1B petition will have to … Read more