President Donald Trump is expected to sigrequiring a fee of US $ 100,000 for applications in an attempt to stop excessive use, according to a White House official familiar with the matter.
Trump plans to sign a proclamation on Friday, demanding payment and stating that the abuse of H-1B road has displaced US workers. The proclamation restricts the entrance under the H-1B program unless it is accompanied by the payment, added the official, who requested the anonymity to talk about politics before his ad.
Trump also plans to order the Secretary of Labor to undertake a process of preparing standards to review the salary levels in force for the H-1B program, A measure aimed at limiting the use of visas to undermine salaries that would otherwise be paid to US workers.
This measure constitutes the last immigration reform of the Trump administration and will seriously affect, in particular, the technology industry, since it depends largely on the H-1B visas. The Administration argues that the reviews will provide greater certainty to legitimate applications under the program by eliminating abuse.
In an information sheet seen by Bloomberg News, the White House said that US workers are being replaced by foreign labor with lower wages and described it as a threat to national security. This dynamic is depressing wages and discouraging Americans to choose races in Stem areas, according to the White House.
It was not clear immediately if the figure of US $ 100,000 joined, or included, existing rates, which are much more modest. Rates directly linked to the Visa H-1B application currently include a US $ 215 rate to register in the lottery and a US $ 780 rate for an I-129 form, which is a request for a non-immigrant worker presented by an employer sponsor.
H-1B visas are granted by a lottery systembut Bloomberg News previously reported that the failures in the system create lagoons that some employers explode flooding the lottery with entries.
Unlike large technology companies, these companies often use the visa program to hire workers with lower salaries, and do so indirectlythrough personnel and subcontracting endowment companies that capture approximately half of the 85,000 new visas assigned each year.
The change of administration policy is developed together with a wave of rate increases for work permits, asylum requests and humanitarian protections stipulated in the fiscal bill of the president, In an attempt to raise income to pay the financing of new detention centers, the hiring of thousands of immigration agents and the expansion of the construction of the border wall.
