Overview
- Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene introduced legislation to eliminate the H-1B program, framing it as an effort to prioritize U.S. workers.
- The bill would strip any pathway from H-1B status to permanent residency or citizenship and require visa holders to leave when their terms end.
- A limited exemption would allow up to 10,000 visas annually for medical professionals, scheduled to phase out over ten years.
- The measure also aims to prohibit Medicare-funded residency programs from admitting non-citizen medical students.
- The push follows President Trump’s recent defense of bringing in specific high-skill talent, even as the administration added a $100,000 fee for certain new H-1B petitions and federal labor officials opened investigations into alleged abuses.