Posted on 09/19/2025 6:21:07 PM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will require a $100,000 annual visa fee for highly-skilled foreign workers and rolled out a $1 million “gold card” visa as a pathway to U.S. citizenship for wealthy individuals, moves that face near-certain legal challenges amid widespread criticism he is sidestepping Congress.
If the moves survive legal muster, they will deliver staggering price increases. The visa fee for skilled workers would jump from $215. The fee for investor visas, which are common in many European countries, would climb from $10,000-$20,000 a year.
H-1B visas, which require at least a bachelor's degree, are meant for high-skilled jobs that tech companies find difficult to fill. Critics say the program is a pipeline for overseas workers who are often willing to work for as little as $60,000 annually, well below the $100,000-plus salaries typically paid to U.S. technology workers.
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Feckless Congress should have acted, but they're corrupt.
They need to be gone from our nation.
Yes.
Anything that gets rid of indians is a good thing.
“Anything that gets rid of indians is a good thing.”
They are mostly on reservations now
Maybe they can open some casinos
Yeap...mostly on reservations, cooking chicken curry.
"Staggering" huh? You mean there were a "staggering" number of jobs that Americans were too unskilled to do???
It expires in 1 year.
I bet the tech companies will wait it out.
Oh I hope Trump can do this. America first.
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