US President Donald Trump on Friday left the country’s technical sector to start charging the application fee for high-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers and has left the country’s technical sector and Universities Scratching to detect implications.
Announcement came In a so -called announcement Claiming that the H-1B visa has been deliberately exploited to replaced the supplementation rather than supplemented, low-paying to American workers, with low-skilled labor “and systemic misuse of the program has reduced both our economic and national security.”
Since its onset in 1990, the H-1B visa program has been used to provide technical industry with most highly efficient foreign workers. Each year has a limit to the volume of H -1B.
The current limit is 65,000, with an additional 20,000 for non -residents who graduate with a master’s degree or are higher than an American body.
People are currently responsible for about two-thirds of visa holders in “computer-related” businesses.
Immediate implication for American economy
Michael A, Professor of Economics at George Mason University at US State of Virginia. Clamens told DW that the announcement has caused “extreme chaos” and many aspects including its validity have been made uncertain.
“People are still finding out that it means the declaration of exceptionally haste and shock policy,” Clemens said. “The best interpretation, I think, now we have $ 100,000 by payment that applies to at least a new initial employer.”
The initial Trump’s statement did not clarify whether the fee would re -present a current visa holder in the United States or if it applies to renewal or existing holders.
Old haf white House Press Secretary Karolin Levitt has said that the fee wood is only a once application fee that does not only apply to the holder, they appear on obstacles with Commerce Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik, who said last week that the fee be applied wild annually.
Despite the accurate conditions, there is a lot of disappointment on the immediate implications between economists.
Clamens said the potential loss of talent would be “tremendous economic loss” to the American economy.
Jeremy Robins, Executive Director of the Nonpartison American Immigration Council, told DW that he hopes to look at large multinational companies that if the plan is implemented, immediately transferred operations to other places.
Robins said, “We are going to dramatically handicap it, which has our potential in major economic and national security industries such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing.” Hey said, “Many talented people around the world who want to come here and innovate are looking to go somewhere else.”
Who wants to impress?
Clamens stated that universities and non -profit organizations currently have more than one third of H -1B visas and they are wild to pay high fees to large -scale essential workers.
This would mean that “a large -scale hit for the capacity of any university, the best and bright testing to the best and bright testing researchers to rent researchers” and “the discovery of any non -governmental organization is forgotten the ability to hire people.”
Other critics have reduced harmful effects Startups And small tech firm.
Startup incubator Wi Combinator’s Chief Executive Gary Tan wrote Messaging platform x This decision “Kneecaps Startup.”
“In the midst of the AI weapons race, we are asking the builders to build elsewhere. We need American Little Tech to win, not $ 100K tolbooths,” said Heer.
Clemens said that for small startups it would be “all but impossible” to hire essential people if they had to pay the search fee. “This wants to destroy their possibilities,” hey said.
Massive silicon Valley companies like Meta, Google and Amazon are among the largest H -1B users, relying on the program to provide scientists and engineers. Their large -scale revenue means that they can pay fees anyway, but therefore looking for discounts.
Is there any validity for Trump’s claims?
The White House claims that the H -1B system is being misused and has denied American employees.
Robins said the system required improvement, indicating that it was designed in the late 1980s and needed to upgrade to the modern economy, it was noted how the firms are used and from which areas.
He said security for American workers “probably not where they need to be.”
“That’s why I think some organizations like us are in favor of improving the H -1B system, to make Suras that it is not about attracting talent and finding cheap workers,” heer said.
He said, however, even in its “broken situation”, studies continuously prove how many jobs the visa system creates, operates innovation and dramatically contributes to gross domestic product. ,
Robins stated that American technical activists were “not being deprived of the program” because the unemployed among highly skilled American technical workers “dramatically low, the last 10, 15 years of 2% range” has been dramatically low. ,
Clamens stated that the misuse of the program was “a reality”, but said that there are a type of rules in place to deal with it.
As the US Labor Department “compliance with the firms with the rules of the program” often investigates, Clemens said, “it” violates. ”
“This is definitely a case to prosecute the law to enforce and violate the law, but to take the entire class of immigrants and impose on all has nothing to do with an astronomical punishment,” he said.
What are for long periods?
Companies, universities, non -profit institutions and other users of the H -1B visa program attempt to find out the next stages, experts agree that, if the Trump administration proceeds with an application fee of $ 100,000, it will damage the US economic innovation in a long time.
Clamens stated that “the impacts of H1B workers” highly rigid, colleague’s studies “continuously point to a result: benefits to the local economy.”
He said, “Where too much go on, they cause more patterning, they cause more high-development, entrepreneurial capital-supported startup firms and they dynamic local economies,” he said.
And Jeremy Robins said that what is one of America’s “greatest strength” that country “is a place where talented people worldwide want more,” saying that it would be a “very risky proposal to be threatened.”
Edited by: Uwe Hessler