Big Tech Tells H-1B Workers Not to Leave Country Due to Trump’s New Policy

Donald Trump’s announcement on Friday that his administration will impose an annual fee of $ 100,000 on H1-B visa requests, which allow foreign workers in specialized professions to work in the United States, has sent industries and governments to a cycle of confusion. With the policy that will enter into force on Sunday, according to what was reported, the major technology companies are informed of H-1B holders in their bases working either in the United States or a return from abroad before the enactment of the new policy, according to CNBC.

According to the report, Amazon sent a memo to its employees to advise the H-1B or H-4 visa workers (granted to the H-1B workers) to return from abroad before 12:01 am on September 21. I advised H-1B visa holders to cancel future travel plans and stay in the United States “for the foreseeable future.”

Technology companies are the largest user in the H-1B visa program. Five of the six best employers from H-1B workers are Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google, according to citizenship and immigration services data. Under the new rules, which require either the H-1B visa holder or their sponsor to pay 100,000 dollars annually to maintain the active work permit, can stare Amazon, in theory, at one billion dollars each year to keep more than 10,000 H-1B visa holders currently employ in the workforce.

But technology is also far from the only industry that relies on specialized employment from abroad. According to the business standard, more than 30 % of the US medical population is international graduates, and is currently filled from 10,000 to 43,000 accommodations by H-1B visa holders. There is a continuous shortage of the doctor in the country that was expected to get worse without new restrictions. The American Medical Colleges Association expected a shortage of 20200 to 40,400 primary care doctors by 2036, before the new H-1B fees.

He is not only the industrial players afraid, too. Foreign governments are scrambling to respond to the new policy, with a little deadline to sort all the details. “This procedure is likely to have humanitarian consequences through the disturbance caused by families. The government hopes that these turmoil will be appropriately addressed by the American authorities,” the Indian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement. South Korea Foreign Ministry also said it sorted the potential effects of Korean workers, for all CNBC.

The Trump administration, and is also accustomed to the recipes of politics today, is trying to sort the unlimited information it provided at the beginning. Axios stated that officials have made it clear that the new H-1B visa fees will not apply to the current visa holders belonging to the country, so workers should be able to return to the country without obtaining a $ 100,000 fee. It is said that the fees will not come into effect until the next session of new applicants to the H-1B program. If visa holders want to risk taking this administration with its word is another question.