US President Donald Trump on Friday (September 19, 2025) signed an announcement to impose a fee of $ 100,000 on the new application for H-1B visa i.e. Indians will now have to spend Rs 88 lakh for visa application. This step will affect the Indian workers the most because they are the most among the beneficiaries.

Announcing an increase in the price of H-1B visa, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik said that now companies will have to pay $ 1,00,000 annually for each visa. Lutnik said, ‘H-1B visa will have to pay one million dollars annually and all the big companies are ready for it. We have talked to them.

‘The purpose of this policy is to prioritize American graduate’

Lutenik further said that the objective of this policy is to give priority to the American graduate. If you are going to train someone, then train someone recently graduated from a great university. Traine Americans. Stop bringing people to snatch our jobs. Trump said, ‘The technology sector will support this change. They will be very happy with the new visa fee.

No immediate reply was given on the matter on Friday by representatives of several big tech companies including Amazon, Apple, Google and Meta.

Most Indians get benefit

According to official data, India has the highest 71 percent of H-1B visa recipients, while 11.7 percent from China. Explain that H-1B visas are usually issued for a period of three to six years.

The US issues 85,000 H-1B visas annually through lottery system. This year Amazon got the highest number of more than 10,000 employees. After that Tata Consultancy, Microsoft, Apple and Google were ranked. According to USCIS, H-1B is the largest number of employees in California.

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