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Trump’s big change to the H-1B visa is a $100,000 hit to entrepreneurs, startups
Yahoo Finance·2025-09-24 17:29

Here we go again. Another policy that lands hardest on the people least able to absorb it: entrepreneurs and small businesses. Last week, the President issued a proclamation requiring a 100,000paymentforeachnewH1Bvisapetition.TheintentistoprotectAmericanjobs.Thatsaworthygoal,butifyousubtractoutpoliticsandlookatthisfromthegroundlevel,theeffectisdevastatingforsmaller,fastgrowingcompaniesoutsideofmajormetroareas.ForApple,Microsoft,orGoogle,100,000 payment for each new H-1B visa petition. The intent is to protect American jobs. That’s a worthy goal, but if you subtract out politics and look at this from the ground level, the effect is devastating for smaller, fast-growing companies outside of major metro areas. For Apple, Microsoft, or Google, 100,000 is pe ...