Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta top the list of companies with the most H-1B visas approved in 2025

Amazon leads with over 12,000 approvals — here are the 13 companies that received the most H-1B visas in fiscal year 2025, as Trump hikes the fee to $100,000

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President Donald Trump announced Friday that the government is hiking the fee for H-1B visas to $100,000, about 60 times the previous cost. 

The new rules for the visas, which let companies hire foreign workers in jobs such as IT, healthcare, and engineering to work in the country for six years, sparked panic among some of America’s biggest companies. Amazon $AMZN, Microsoft $MSFT, JPMorgan $JPM Chase, and others issued emergency guidance to workers, urging H-1B holders to stay in the country and telling those who live overseas to return to the U.S. before the rule came into place on........

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