US President Donald Trump said that the misuse of H-1B program is a threat to national security. He signed an announcement to ban the entry of some non-immigrant workers and impose an annual fee of US $ 100,000 on visas used by companies to appoint workers from other countries including Indians to stay and work in the US.
Trump on Friday signed the announcement of ‘ban on entry of some non-resident workers’, which prohibits the entry of workers in the US with an H1B application not paying US $ 100,000.
Trump said in the announcement, “The H-1B non-resident visa program was designed to bring temporary workers to the United States, so that they could do additional, high-efficient work, but instead of deliberately fulfilling American workers with low-wage, low-wide workers, they have been exploited to replace them.”
He said in the manifesto, “The misuse of the H-1B program is also a threat to national security. Domestic law enforcement agencies have identified H-B-based outsourcing companies involved in other illegal activities encouraging foreign employees to come to America … and have investigated H-B-based outsourcing companies and have investigated.”
Trump said that it is necessary to impose high costs on companies wishing to use the H-1B program to prevent misuse of this program, as well as the companies to appoint the best temporary foreign employees.
The announcement stated, “Our economic and national security has required immediate response to the massive misuse of the program requires immediate response. So I believe that some foreign laborers will be unruly entry into the United States” will be harmful to the interests of the United States, as such an entry will cause damage to American workers, including their salaries. “
Trump ordered that the Home Safety Secretary would ban the decision making on the petitions with which H-1B will not pay US $ 100,000, which is currently out of the US, for 12 months after the effective date of announcement, which is September 21, 2025.
The Secretary of State will also issue guidance to prevent misuse of B Visa by foreign beneficiaries of approved H-1B applications approved as per requirement and to the extent permitted by law, whose employment start date is before 1 October, 2026.
It states that these restrictions will not be applicable to a person or a company or people working in the industry, if it is determined that appointing such individuals as H-1B expert business workers is in the national interest and there is no threat to the security or welfare of the United States.
The Homeland Department of Security and the State Department will coordinate to take all necessary and appropriate action to implement this announcement and will deprive any H-1B non-migrants from entering the United States for which the future employer has not paid. The ban on entry will only apply to individuals who enter the United States after September 21, 2025 or try to enter.
Trump said the massive replacement of American workers through systematic abuse of the program has weakened both US economic and national security.
Trump said, “Some employers, now, have misused the H-1B law and its rules to reducing wages, using widely adopted practices, now by using widely adopted practices, resulting in an unnecessary labor market for American citizens, while at the same time it has become more difficult to attract and maintain the highest efficient subgroup of temporary workers, which has become more difficult to attract and maintain the highest efficiency of temporary workers, which is more difficult to maintain and maintain the greatest impact, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology, technology and maintenance. (STEM) is seen in areas. “
The manifesto states that especially information technology companies have manipulated a large scale in the H-1B system, causing great damage to American workers working in computer-related areas.
Considering that IT employees’ stake in the H-1B program increased from 32 percent to an average in the last 5 financial years in the financial year 2003, the announcement said that some of the most productive H-1B employers are now continuously IT outsourcing companies.
It states that the misuse of the H-1B visa program has made it even more challenging for college graduates trying to find jobs in the IT sector, giving employers an opportunity to appoint foreign workers at much exemption compared to American workers.
The manifesto cited a high unemployment rate among computer science and computer engineering students and said that many American technology companies have fired their eligible and highly skilled American employees from their jobs and also hired thousands of H-1B employees.
An example of a software company was also given in the announcement, which was approved for more than 5,000 H-1B employees in FY 2025, and announced a trimming of more than 15,000 employees at the same time.
It also stated that American IT employees have stated that they were forced to train foreign employees who were snatching their jobs, and the condition of obtaining any type of dissection allowance, as a condition to obtain this “insult” to signing non-revolutionary agreements about this “insult”.
