Big Tech tells H-1B workers not to leave the country due to Trump’s new policy

Friday, Donald Trump’s announcement that his administration will impose annual fees of $ 100,000 on H1-B visa requests, which allows foreign workers to work in the United States, sent industries and governments to a spiral of confusion. The policy that was to come into force on Sunday, large technological companies would have told H-1B holders in their workforce to stay in the United States or return from abroad before the promulgation, according to CNBC.

According to the report, Amazon sent a note to its employees advising workers on H-1B or H-4 visa holders (given to family members dependent on H-1B workers) to return from abroad before 12:01 p.m. on September 21. Microsoft would have sent a similar message, warning its employees that the Trump administration policy is “structured as a travel restriction” and international trips could put their working state at risk. He advised H-1B visa holders to cancel future travel plans and stay in the United States “in the foreseeable future”.

Technological companies are by far the largest users of the H-1B visa program. Five of the six main employers in H-1B workers are Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple and Google, according to data from citizenship and immigration services. Under the new rules, which would require the H-1B visa holder or their sponsor paying $ 100,000 per year to keep the work permit active, Amazon could, in theory, watch a 1 billion dollars ticket each year to keep the more than 10,000 H-1B visa holders which he currently employs in his workforce.

But technology is also far from the only industry that counts on the specialized work from abroad. According to business standard, more than 30% of medical residents in the United States are international graduates and between 10,000 and 43,000 residence points are currently filled with H-1B visa holders. There is a shortage of ongoing doctors in the country which was to worsen without new restrictions. The association of American Medical Colleges projected a shortage of 20,200 to 40,400 primary care physicians by 2036, before the new H-1B costs.

It is not only the actors of the industry who panic either. Foreign governments rush to respond to the new policy, with little delay to sort all the details. “This measure is likely to have humanitarian consequences through the disruption caused by families. The government hopes that these disturbances can be approached appropriately by the American authorities,” the Indian Ministry of External Affairs said in a statement. The South Korea Ministry of Foreign Affairs has also declared that it sorts the potential implications for Korean workers by CNBC.

The Trump administration, as has become customary for its political prescriptions, spends the day trying to settle the ill -defined information that it initially provided. Axios said the officials have clarified the new H-1B visa costs will not apply to valid visa holders again in the country, the workers should therefore be able to return to the country without being hit with costs of $ 100,000. It seems that the costs come into force before the next cycle of new candidates for the H-1B program. That visa holders wish to risk taking this administration in the word is another question.