H-1B visas: The White House tries to clear confusion after panic launches the America of the company in chaos

On Saturday, the secretary of the press Karoline Leavitt went to X to explain to which visa titles the costs apply and when.

“This is not annual fees,” she said. “This is a punctual royalty that only applies to the petition.”

Leavitt has added that H-1B holders currently existing outside the United States will not be billed at $ 100,000 to return, and that they can continue to leave and return as they currently do.

Trump’s new H-1B policy also applies only to new visas, and not to renewals for current holders, she explained, noting that it will take effect in the next lottery cycle.

On Friday, Trump signed a proclamation which imposes fees of $ 100,000 for H-1B visas and announced a “gold card” visa of $ 1 million that can serve as a way so that wealthy investors to win American citizenship.

At the time, the Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, suggested that the costs, which started at 12:01 p.m. on Sunday, would be annual.

When asked if the policy applies to existing holders, he replied that companies with H-1B employees had to ask: “Is the precious person precious enough to have a payment of $ 100,000 per year to the government? Or should go home and hire an American? ”

This has provoked us with technology giants, which are strongly based on H-1B, to warn the employees of these visas against trips abroad.

Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon and others told the employees concerned to return to the United States on Saturday and cancel any project to leave the United States

“Although we do not have all the answers at the moment, we ask you to prioritize the above recommendations,” said a message from Microsoft, according to Bloomberg.

The best banks JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs have sent messages similar to employees on H-1B visas, according to the Financial time.

H-1B visas had previously been a division problem in Trump’s circle. At the end of last year, before falling with the president, Elon Musk called for more qualified workers, as did and his colleague entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy. But Maga Hardliners demanded that US companies hire more American workers.

In a response to a position the narguarding about H-1BS, musk born in South Africa struck suddenly.

“The reason for which I am in America with so many critical people who built SpaceX, Tesla and hundreds of other companies that have returned strong America is because of H1B,” he wrote in December. “Get a big step back and F – K yourself opposite. I’m going to make war on this problem you can’t understand.”

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