US renews $100,000 H-1B visa fee proclamation and adds interagency program-integrity executive order

Mechanism

Two distinct instruments signed the same day:

• Proclamation (extension of Proclamation 10973): renews the $100,000 payment

requirement attached to new H-1B petitions filed with USCIS, in force for a further 12 months (through 2027-09-21). Limited exceptions remain available at the DHS Secretary's discretion for national-interest cases. Applies to all H-1B filers regardless of nationality, but the cited impact metrics concentrate on large IT-outsourcing firms, whose US client base draws heavily on India-headquartered services companies.

• Executive order ("Enhancing Program Integrity and Interagency Coordination in

the Administration of the H-1B Nonimmigrant Visa Program"): directs DHS, State and Labor to coordinate petition review, consult Commerce/Education/SBA on employment data, and apply heightened scrutiny where the sponsoring employer has recent or planned layoffs of US workers.

Downstream implications

• The fee renewal is the binding cost lever; the executive order is a process/

administrative layer on top of it (no separate numeric threshold disclosed).

• Companies structurally reliant on H-1B-sponsored offshore-staffing models (Indian

IT-services majors and their US clients) carry the concentrated exposure — the fact sheet's own metric (92% registration drop among the largest outsourcing filers) is company-level evidence, not a macro estimate.

• target_countries: [IN] reflects the disclosed impact concentration on

India-headquartered outsourcing firms; the measure itself is not framed as country-discriminatory in the proclamation text.