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Attorney urges H-1B reform as Trump fee deepens visa fault lines
Immigration lawyer Emily Neumann sees the fee and the lottery overhaul as part of a broader ideological project.
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Lalit K Jha (5WH) - Mon, 29, Sep 2025
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For immigration lawyer Emily Neumann, the uproar over President Trump’s new $100,000 H-1B entry fee is only the latest sign that America’s skilled worker visa system is badly broken. “The cap was set before the internet even existed,” she said. “It has not kept up with our economy.”
“The harder we make it for companies to be able to get the talent that we need, the more likely they’re going to move those jobs abroad,” she told 5WH in an interview.
Neumann, who specializes in employment-based immigration, acknowledged that the H-1B system faces abuses — but argued that enforcement, rather than punitive fees, is the solution. “Is there abuse? Yes, there’s some … there always needs to be enforcement,” she said. But the narrative that companies routinely replace U.S. workers with cheaper foreign labour is “just not accurate.”
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