What are H-1B visas for skilled workers and what changes are being made?

Business groups and companies say the visas help recruit highly skilled professionals and address a lack of qualified U.S. workers in some industries.

What are H-1B visas for skilled workers and what changes loom?  Reuters

A new proposal would charge employers $US103,265 for H-1B visas and attempt to make permanent a temporary rule challenged by the US courts.

The proposal comes after the Trump administration ran into legal challenges in its attempt to attach a similar fee to the H-1B visa last year.

US President Donald Trump's administration has proposed a fee of more than $103,000 on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, a government notice on the Federal Register showed Monday. The Department of Homeland Security proposed a $103,265 fee for the H-1B visa program, designed for skilled professionals i

President Donald Trump's administration on Monday released a proposed regulation ​to codify an unprecedented fee of more than US$100,000 on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers that has been blocked ‌by the courts.

The proposal by DHS comes just an earlier $100,000 H-1B visa fee — which was announced by Donald Trump as a presidential proclamation in September 2025 and subsequently halted by a US court in June this year — is set to expire on Sept 21

US President Donald Trump's administration on Monday moved to impose a more than $100,000 fee on employers hiring foreign workers through a highly-skilled visa program, after facing a legal setback in an earlier effort.