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Expert: "Unclear" What Will Happen to H-1B Visas Under Trump

January 09, 2025 (1 min read)

Soutik Biswas and Zoya Mateen, BBC News, Jan. 9, 2025

"The H-1B visa program, which brings skilled foreign workers to the US, faces criticism for undercutting American workers but is praised for attracting global talent. The president-elect, once a critic, now supports the 34-year-old program, while tech billionaire Elon Musk defends it as key to securing top engineering talent. ... "The first Trump administration tightened H-1B visas by increasing denial rates and slowing processing times, making it harder for people to get visas in time. It is unclear whether that will happen again in the second Trump administration," Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Law School, told the BBC. "Some people like Elon Musk want to preserve the H-1B visas, while other officials in the new administration want to restrict all immigration, including H-1Bs. It is too early to tell which side will prevail." "