On Friday, September 19, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation, “Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers,” that took an important, initial, and incremental step to reform the H-1B visa program to curb abuses and protect American workers. This Proclamation: Requires a $100,000 payment to accompany any new H-1B visa petitions submitted after
Today, President Donald J. Trump signed a Proclamation to restrict the entry into the United States of certain H-1B aliens as nonimmigrant workers, requiring a $100,000 payment to accompany or supplement H-1B petitions for new applications to curb abuses that displace U.S. workers and undermine national security. The Proclamation restricts entry for aliens as nonimmigrants
ESTABLISHING THE GOLD CARD: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to create the Gold Card visa program, facilitating expedited immigration for aliens who make significant financial gifts to the United States. The Order directs the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretaries of State and Homeland Security, to establish a “Gold
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labor. The large-scale replacement of American workers through
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION From the battlefields of the Revolutionary War to the trenches of World War II to the sprawling jungles of Vietnam, thousands of our patriotic service members have been horrifically captured by the enemy and forced to endure excruciating torture, agony, and distress in the
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1. Purpose. My Administration has worked relentlessly to undo the disastrous immigration policies of the prior administration. Those policies produced a deluge of immigrants, without serious consideration of how those immigrants
COMMEMORATING OUR CLOSE BOND: As President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump conclude their historic Second State Visit to the United Kingdom, the United States reaffirms the enduring special relationship with our closest ally—a partnership rooted in shared history, common values, and a commitment to a more prosperous future. President Trump is the