Soutik Biswas and Zoya Mateen, BBC News, Jan. 9, 2025
“The H-1B visa program, which brings expert international employees to the US, faces criticism for undercutting American employees however is praised for attracting international expertise. The president-elect, as soon as a critic, now helps the 34-year-old program, whereas tech billionaire Elon Musk defends it as key to securing high engineering expertise. … “The primary Trump administration tightened H-1B visas by growing denial charges and slowing processing instances, making it more durable for individuals to get visas in time. It’s unclear whether or not that may occur once more within the second Trump administration,” Stephen Yale-Loehr, an immigration scholar at Cornell Legislation College, advised the BBC. “Some individuals like Elon Musk wish to protect the H-1B visas, whereas different officers within the new administration wish to prohibit all immigration, together with H-1Bs. It’s too early to inform which facet will prevail.” “
