In a major relief for foreign students and American employers the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has clarified that the $100,000 ‘ent.

The H-1B programme, created to allow American companies to hire foreign professionals in specialised occupations, has long been a mainstay of sectors like information technology, engineering, and medicine. Indians account for roughly 71 per cent of all approved H-1B petitions, according to USCIS data, making them the most directly affected group.

The new USCIS guideline s said existing visa holders, which include international students on F-1 visas and professionals on L-1 visas, will not have to pay $100,000 when they apply for a change of status to H-1B. Existing H-1B visa holders are also exempted from this fee while renewing their H-1B status, the USCIS said.

The overall shift from 2008 to 2025 also reflects Trump’s first-term Administration’s move away from simple, one-word or short-answer questions, basic geography questions, and questions with minimal civic content to more specific and more complex ones that require better understanding of history.

Texas has found thousands of illegal immigrants registered to vote on state voter rolls. Secretary of State Jane Nelson said the potential noncitizens were flagged through a cross-check of the state's 18 million registered voters against federal citizenship records in the USCIS 'SAVE' database,