Trump to impose $100k fee for H-1B worker visas, White House says

Note that the fee is triggered by entry.

It sounds like F1 and TN visa holders will be able to acquire H1B visas without triggering the fee (but no international travel afterwards or the fee would be triggered).

I suspect that the o1 and l1 visas will get more use if this actually gets enforced.

I also suspect that the large tech companies don't overly mind since they all have very active offshoring programs.

Except that I (and I believe it will apply to many folks similar to myself) working for US company branches located in the EU for a decade, on the staff/EM positions, with education to qualify also for O1 - will not put my life and my family’s life to be the subject of sudden immigration changes.

What’s stopping them from doing the same for L1/O1 folks and locking them in with days’ notice?

Few of my US colleagues that I know are now abroad, and I cannot fathom how they took the news.