Doctors May Escape Trump’s Contentious $100K H-1B Fee: The Brief

DOCTORS could qualify for exemptions from President Donald Trump’s plan to raise the H-1B application fee to $100,000, the White House said today, after some of the biggest medical bodies called out the risk to rural America where there’s already a dearth of providers, Rachel Cohrs Zhang, John Tozzi, and Jessica Nix report.

• Trump’s executive order said the fee can be waived if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines that the hiring of workers on an individual basis, or to work for a specific company or industry, is “in the national interest.” It’s not yet clear if doctors ...