President Donald Trump, next to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., makes an announcement linking autism to childhood vaccines and to the use of popular pain medication Tylenol for pregnant women and children, claims which are not backed by decades of science, at the White House, in Washington, D.C., U.S., September 22, 2025. (Reuters File)
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President Donald Trump on Sept. 19 proposed a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa applications, a sharp increase from the roughly $2,500 in current filing and legal costs, The Economist reported.
“You graduate from a college, I think you should get, automatically as part of your diploma, a green card,” Trump said on the campaign trail last year, but his administration is now pursuing the opposite approach.
The fee affects the 85,000 H-1B visas issued annually, widely used by U.S. tech firms including Amazon, Infosys, and Tata Consultancy Services, and primarily obtained by Indian citizens.
Analysts warn the higher cost could push companies to expand operations offshore rather than hire foreign graduates in the U.S. Generative-AI advancements and prior staffing shifts already challenge India’s IT sector, and the new charge may accelerate multinationals’ offshoring.
Investors appeared calm, with India’s NIFTY IT index dropping only 3% following the announcement.
