$100,000 H-1B fee won't apply to status change or renewals: USCIS

THE $100,000 FEE imposed bytheTrumpadministration on new H-1B visa petitions willnotapply toapplicants seeking a “change of status” or “extension of stay’,according to fresh guidelines.

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Issued by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) on Monday, the guidelines clarified the exemptions to President Donald Trump’s September 19 proclamation, ‘Restriction on entry of certain non-immigrant workers’, which will raise the fee for new H1-B visas to a steep $100,000 (approx %88 lakhs).

“The Proclamation does not apply to any previously issued and currently valid H-1B visas, or any petitions submitted priorto 12:01 a.m.eastern daylight time on September 21, 2025,’ the USCIS said.