The $100,000 H-1B visa fee and a new preference for older skilled workers could hurt both schools’ foreign staff hiring and their graduate student recruitment.
T here’s been lots of discussion about which tech companies will be the biggest losers from President Donald Trump’s broad assault on H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, including a $100,000 fee for each new visa recipient. But the impact could be felt first by universities, says Jeremy Neufeld, the director of immigration policy at the Institute for Progress, a nonpartisan Washington think tank.
That’s because the fee won’t apply to companies until next March, when the…
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