{"id":2272,"date":"2025-09-26T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2272"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:40:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T18:40:54","slug":"understanding-the-new-100000-h-1b-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/09\/26\/understanding-the-new-100000-h-1b-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the New $100,000 H-1B Fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/American-US-Flag-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1766\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/American-US-Flag-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/American-US-Flag-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/American-US-Flag-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On September 19, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation titled, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, imposing\u00a0a $100,000 fee on H-1B petitions\u00a0filed on or after September 21, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This proclamation does not apply to individuals who are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are the beneficiaries of currently approved petitions, or are in possession of validly issued H-1B \u00a0visas. \u00a0Also, CBP has instructed its staff that the Proclamation does not impact H-1B holders who travel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several groups have already announced that they intend to challenge the legality of the Proclamation since USCIS filing fees must bear a reasonable relationship to the cost for the agency to provide that service and the agency must also first publish them in the Federal Register. \u00a0A federal judge may therefore quickly enjoin the Proclamation, preventing its implementation while the litigation proceeds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Fisher &amp; Phillips LLP:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisherphillips.com\/en\/news-insights\/feds-to-charge-100k-for-h-1b-visas-employer-faqs-action-plan.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Feds to Charge $100K for H-1B Visas: Employer FAQs + Action Plan<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>SheppardMullin:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.laboremploymentlawblog.com\/2025\/09\/articles\/immigration\/what-employers-need-to-know-about-the-new-h-1b-executive-order\/#more-7044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">What Employers Need to Know About the New H-1B Executive Order<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>USCIS:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uscis.gov\/newsroom\/alerts\/h-1b-faq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H-1B FAQ<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 19, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation titled, Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers, imposing\u00a0a $100,000 fee on H-1B petitions\u00a0filed on or after September 21, 2025. This proclamation does not apply to individuals who are the beneficiaries of petitions that were filed prior to the effective date of the proclamation, are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[267,130,268,125],"class_list":["post-2272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-100000-fee","tag-executive-order","tag-h-1b","tag-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2272\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}