A September 18 proclamation extends the $100,000 H-1B payment for another year, to September 21, 2027, citing payments on over 700 petitions and a 92 percent drop in outsourcing-firm registrations, and does not mention that a federal court vacated the guidance used to collect it; USCIS's page still says DHS will comply with that ruling.
…the national-interest exception the Secretary of Homeland Security may grant for "any individual alien, all aliens working for a company, or all aliens working in an industry"; and the duty on employers…
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Proclamation 11069, signed September 18 and published in the Federal Register on September 23, extended for 12 months, to September 21, 2027, the $100,000 payment required with new H-1B petitions for workers outside the United States. It says the payment has been made for over 700 petitions since September 21, 2025, that the largest IT staffing and outsourcing firms cut their combined registrations from 24,946 to 2,055, and that consular processing requests fell nearly 97 percent. It does not mention that on June 8, 2026 a federal court in Massachusetts vacated the agency guidance used to collect the payment, or that the First Circuit refused to pause that ruling on July 24. USCIS's H-1B page, last reviewed September 21, still says DHS will comply with the court's order. A companion order, Executive Order 14431, tells State, Labor and DHS to weigh a sponsor's layoffs in the previous year, or planned ones, and gives the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division until October 18 to begin reviewing labor condition applications already on file.
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