Currently, the lottery costs $215, and an employer petition costs about $780.
🗣The H-1B is the main visa for highly skilled workers in the US (IT, medicine, engineering, science). It brings tens of thousands of specialists to the country every year, who are hired by American companies. Large corporations like Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft actively use this program.
⚡️ The new measure will make the visa effectively inaccessible for most employers and specialists.
The reform will be part of the Trump administration’s tougher immigration policy.
📌 According to its supporters, the new measure is intended to protect American workers, who are allegedly being displaced by lower-paid foreign workers.
📌 Opponents of the initiative warn that it will hit the US economy and slow the country’s technological development.
⌛️ Trump could sign the decision in the coming days. Experts expect a sharp decline in the number of foreign workers in the US labor market.
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