H-1B visa fee hike, Sept. 20 -- US President Donald Trump on Friday, 19 September 2025, signed a proclamation titled 'Restriction on entry of certain nonimmigrant workers' which imposed a H-1B visa fee hike to $100,000 for people who are looking to work in the United States.

As a result of this move, several Indians who are on H-1B visas will now be either stranded and have to pay the newly revised fee of $100,000, effective Sunday, 21 September 2025, or will have to enter the United States before the midnight ahead of the deadline.

However, so far, neither Donald Trump nor the White House have announced any extension to the Sunday, 21 September 2025 deadline for the H-1B visa fee hike.

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