$3,800 Flights and Aborted Takeoffs: How Trump’s H-1B Announcement Panicked Tech Workers
After a six weeks Wurry journey xiayun, an employee in siliconductor in siliconductor in silicon valley, was at her place of birth, when she saw the news about H-1B Visas. On Friday afternoon, US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation Saying that every entry of Els HPA holder will be “limited, except for the aliens whose petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of $ 100,000.” The news left Xiayun and hundreds of workers to find out how to be affected how to be affected and if they were to return abroad, if the new rule was set to take.
Xiayun, who asked to use her online alias and use their employer in the story to identify that she began to begin her to begin the fee as soon as possible. Before they even met their family at the airport, says they decided to fly back to the USA as soon as possible to the USA to the USA. They only remained in Uumqi for two hours before returning to the next flight to California.
“I looked forward to traveling for a long time, but the reality is, I can't behind my husband, my cat, my friends, and my job in the US, they tells them.
H-1B is one of the most common work visa, issued to experienced workers who seeks temporary residence in the US, as long as three years, with the ability of renewal ongoing employment. In 2019, the US citizenship and immigration services (USCIS) Estimated That there were more than 580,000 immigrants H – 1b visas held in the country. Silicon Valley companies are the largest users, according to data collected by USCIS on the employers that have the most H-1B visas. In fiscal year 2025The top company sponsorship for new H-1B visas recorded Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Apple, and Google.
At paedded even, Microsoft, Google communication to foreign employees, according to emails that, to return to the states of Sunday's deadline in the staple.
Conflicting messages outpass from the White House, American Commerce Secery Shidard Lutnick, Press SECRETARY KAROLINE LEAVITTand other government Social Media Accounts. “Things change every hour, every 30 minutes,” Steven Brown, an Immigration Roffing by Reddy Neumann Brown PC. Lutnick claimed that the $ 100,000 fee canceled would be charged, others said it is a one-time-charge charge. The original proclamation has not exempted the current Visa holders, but the following announcements did. The contradictions and new developments left legal workers, their families, and employers that are not sure to believe about the last weekend.
Wired talking to six H-1B Visa Holders that the last minute decisions to return to the USA of holidays or timbers before the new policy. All asked her to be identified with only her fore or last name in this story, frightened, that exchanged against the administration will cause. While statements Posted by the administration On Saturday afternoon clarify that most H-1B Visa holders were out of the country to drive, through that they have already spent inhabiting their travel plans and two days spent changing.
