"President Donald Trump's six-figure fee for workers looking to come to the U.S. with an H-1B "talent visa" may hit some of the biggest names on the Fortune 500. The new rule, announced last week and in effect as of Sunday, adds a one-time $100,000 fee for workers applying for a new H-1B visa. The fee does not apply to renewals. The H-1B visa program operates via a lottery system and is mostly used in the tech industry to bring in highly skilled workers."
"Among Fortune 500 companies, the most prolific users of the H-1B visa include top names in the tech industry. Leading the list is Amazon, which spread over two subsidiaries Amazon Com Services LLC and Amazon Web Services Inc employed 12,391 workers with H-1B visas, according to data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Amazon was followed by Microsoft and Meta, which had 5,189 and 5,123 H-1B visa-holding workers, respectively."
"Trump's order last week condemned unnamed tech companies, which the president claimed are hiring thousands of employees under the H-1B visa program while laying off American workers. Yet, there are an estimated 730,000 H-1B visa holders in the U.S., according to immigration advocacy group fwd.us. These workers are a small number of the 163 million people employed as of August, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics."
A one-time $100,000 fee for workers applying for new H-1B visas takes effect, and the fee does not apply to renewals. The H-1B program operates via a lottery and is primarily used by the tech industry to bring in highly skilled workers. The rule cites program abuses and national security as justification, while experts warn the fee will make hiring harder and weaken U.S. global competitiveness. Major Fortune 500 users include Amazon (12,391 H-1B employees across subsidiaries), Microsoft (5,189), and Meta (5,123). Non-tech employers such as Walmart also rank among top H-1B users. An estimated 730,000 H-1B holders work in the U.S., a small fraction of total employment.
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