Trump is upping the price of Big Tech’s favorite visa

<figure> <img alt="" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Cath Virginia / The Verge, Getty Images" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/09/257976_h1b_visa_chaos__CVirginia.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">In the span of a few hours on Monday, the Department of Homeland Security announced that it would be implementing a fee of over $103,000 on H-1B visas, and news broke that the State Department plans on revoking the visas of up to 200,000 asylum seekers - which, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/trump-rubio-visas-revoke-e9c14fdfd0ada439d2b9d8694e678a46">according to The Associated Press</a>, would be the largest mass visa revocation in US history. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">More than a year into President Donald Trump's second term, it's become clear that the only way Trump can get the deportation numbers he wants is by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/932865/trump-legal-immigration-denaturalizations-uscis">stripping legal immigrants of status</a>. Beyond having ICE arrest, detain, and deport immigrants, the administration is <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/us/immigration-civil-fines-self-deportation.html">pressuring noncitizens to " …</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/policy/984723/trump-h1b-fee-asylum-legal-immigration">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>