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Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee fuels stress for staff, employers
Fortune·2025-09-23 02:00

Satish, a graduate student from India studying in San Francisco, thought this fall would be about finishing his business degree and then lining up an H-1B visa, the work permit that’s become a mainstay for skilled immigrants in the US.Instead, he’s worried about his ability to build a career in the US as he tries to make sense of the Trump administration’s plan to raise the H-1B application fee to $100,000. “When someone moves here, they move with the motive of working hard and building something better,” s ...