{"id":50110,"date":"2025-09-20T02:57:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50110"},"modified":"2025-09-20T02:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T02:57:50","slug":"trump-adds-100000-fee-for-skilled-worker-visa-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=50110","title":{"rendered":"Trump adds $100,000 fee for skilled worker visa applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will add a $100,000 (\u00a374,000) fee for applicants to the H-1B visa programme for skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The proclamation mentions &#8220;abuse&#8221; of the programme and will restrict entry unless payment is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Critics have long argued that H-1Bs undercut the American workforce, while supporters &#8211; including billionaire Elon Musk &#8211; argue it allows the US to attract top talent from around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In another order, Trump set up a new &#8220;gold card&#8221; to fast-track visas for certain immigrants in exchange for fees starting at \u00a31m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order that will add a $100,000 (\u00a374,000) fee for applicants to the H-1B visa programme for skilled foreign workers. The proclamation mentions &#8220;abuse&#8221; of the programme and will restrict entry unless payment is made. Critics have long argued that H-1Bs undercut the American workforce, while supporters &#8211; including billionaire Elon Musk &#8211; argue it allows the US to attract top talent from around the world. In another order, Trump set up a new &#8220;gold card&#8221; to fast-track visas for certain immigrants in exchange for fees starting at \u00a31m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50111,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50112,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50110\/revisions\/50112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}