H-1B Visa Program Changes
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New DHS and USCIS rules in 2025 significantly restricted the H-1B specialty-worker visa program, including heightened specialty-occupation requirements, increased denial rates, and administrative processing delays characterized by technology-sector employers as effectively blocking the program. Employer coalitions and affected workers challenged the rules as contrary to statute, arbitrary and capricious under the APA, and in some cases retaliatory toward firms that had publicly criticized the administration.