The Trump administration says the US will make further restrictions to its H-1B visa programme in an attempt to make it more expensive for American companies to hire workers from overseas.
While not releasing the full details of the new regulations, the Department of Labor and Department of Homeland Security said they would ask companies to pay higher salaries to workers using the visas in order to prevent them from undercutting American workers, and would narrow the list of occupations the visa could be used for.
“These changes will strengthen our foreign worker programmes and secure American workers’ opportunities for stable, good-paying jobs,” said US labour secretary Eugene Scalia.