Hefty new US visa fee won’t apply to existing holders
A new fee of US-1B visas in the United States will be charged per petition of US $ 100,000 and will not be applied to the existing visa holders who enter the country again.
“This is not an annual fee. This is just a fee for a petition,” the White House spokesman Karoline Leavitt said on Saturday. He said.
The petition is the request of a company to bring a qualified worker from another country to the United States, and the H-1B visa is designed for high-visible workers, where technology companies find it difficult to fill.
Leavitt said that currently existing H-1B visa holders who are currently out of the country will not be collected for US $ 100,000 (A151.630) to re-enter the USA.
Trade Secretary Howard Lotnick said he added that the wage that came into force on Sunday on Friday will be paid every year, but the details are still being thought of.
On Saturday, the White House represented a backfire from Lutnick’s statement.
According to the internal e-mails reviewed by Reuters, some companies, including Microsoft, JPMorgan and Amazon, responded to employees holding H-1B visas in the United States.
A Goldman Sachs internal note on Saturday by Reuters called on employees to be careful about international travel with such visas.
Leavitt said that in X, H-1B visa holders can leave the country as normally and re-enter and the new fee will only be applied to the existing visa holders or renovations in the next H-1B lottery tour.
White House, “lower -paid foreign labor,” said the American workers said that the wage to straighten the playground, he said.
Indian IT industry Nasscom, in a statement early on Saturday, on Friday, signed by President Donald Trump H-1B visa applications imposing new fees, the prominent professionals in the United States can disrupt the global operations of Indian technology services companies.
In an information form distributed on Saturday, the White House said it would allow a US-1B visa to apply for a US $ 100,000 in case of a “national interest”.
Friday’s announcement led to concerns between employees in the fields of corporate America.
The White House said Trump’s movement was designed to address threats to US national security.
