Washington-After focusing on enforcing migration and enhancing deportation in most of his second term, it is expected that the President of the United States Donald Trump will push new measures to increase the H-1B visa program, which is the cornerstone of the immigration system on employment, which allows American companies to employ foreign learners from college for specialized professions.

The executive order, which comes into effect on September 22,

It requires new fees worth $ 100,000 ($ 130,000 Singapore) to submit a petition for H-1B workers

And he confirms that the misuse of the program has led to the displacement of American workers, according to an official at the White House, familiar with the issue.

It was presented in 1990, which is the H-1B visa program that is one of the American immigration initiatives that was created during the twentieth century to address the specified labor deficiency.

Others facilitated the employment of temporary farm workers from Mexico during World War II, and they are mainly running out of Spain in the fifties, and nurses, many of whom came from the Philippines, in the 1990s.

Today, employers can apply for foreigners to fill in temporary agricultural jobs under the H-2A program and workers for other types of temporary jobs, including seasonal work, under the H-2B program.

H-1B visas are used primarily by the technology industry, whose leaders say there is a scarcity of professionals in science, mathematics and computer skills.

“Computer-related” professions accounted for about 65 percent of H-1B approvals in the 2023 fiscal year. Applicants must have at least a Bachelor’s degree. Temporary visa visas, last for six years, but can be extended indefinitely if the company has sponsored the green card’s request to employ the worker to obtain permanent residence in the United States.

Employers must submit the government’s petition for any workers who want to use them in the H-1B visa. New visas issued every year in 65,000 – in addition to 20,000 additional consultations for those who hold a master’s degree or higher than the United States.

The demand from employers exceeds this maximum, so that employers must register potential workers in the annual lottery, a process that has been transmitted online starting in 2020. Companies have provided more than 470,000 eligible posts for the 2025 financial lottery.

Mr. Trump is expected to direct the Ministry of Labor to make new decisions at the minimum wage required for H-1B workers. A similar effort was banned to raise the lowest wages required for H-1B workers during the first Trump administration by federal courts due to procedural violations.

The Ministry of Internal Security has already indicated plans to issue proposed regulations that get rid of the random lottery to customize H-1B visas. Business groups have warned that a proposal to finish the lottery and direct visas to higher wage jobs during Mr. Trump’s first term would reduce the employment of new foreign graduates in American colleges.

Business groups support the program, but they say that it must be expanded because the shares of H-1B visas as well as on the green cards limit their ability to fill in decisive workers.

Supporters of the program cite a research that shows that the professionals who were accepted under the program – most of them workers who have moved to the United States to college or postgraduate programs – are providing benefits to the country.

They have been shown to provide patent applications more than their peers and increase startup opportunities to obtain winning and winning patents. It has been shown that their innovation and productivity lead to a decrease in consumer costs.

The critics of the program attacked it, on both the right and the left, to undermine the skilled American workers.

In December 2024, a row erupted on the X social media platform between Mr. Trump’s new allies in the technology industry and more traditional than Trump’s loyalists about the advantages of H-1B visas. This came after Trump criticized the close and right influential Laura Lummer’s appointment to Mr. Trump to Mr. Sarda Krishnan, an Indian American adventurous capital, as a consultant in artificial intelligence.

Mr. Krishnan has argued for more foreign skilled workers in the American technological industries and supports the end of the green card. The maximum annual green cards are 140,000, and only 7 percent of these individuals can be granted from one country. This has created an important accumulation of countries with large groups of population, such as India, for example.

Mr. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla Inc. jumped And Spacex, on X to defend legal immigration strongly to fill a “severe shortage” of talent in the United States, while insulting its critics at the same time.

Mr. Trump, after trying to reduce the visa program during his first presidency, was weighing to say that he “always supports visas” and used them several times.

In 2024, the Biden Administration renewed the H-1B installation to settle the probability of individual workers and treat fraud suspected by some employers. The Ministry of Internal Security said that a rapid increase in records since 2020 could partially be attributed to companies that are compatible with the enhancement of the potential for the potential of the lottery with multiple entries on behalf of individual workers without developing goodwill. The lottery repair has led to a sharp decrease in the lottery entries, but the number of qualified records still exceeds the visas available under the maximum.

The new regulations also strengthened the powers of supervision of American citizenship and immigration services, including the requirements of employers to comply with visits at the workplace. Bloomberg

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