#skilled-workers

#skilled-workers

President Donald Trump on Friday changed the rules of the H-1B visa program, which provides skilled foreign professionals permission to work in the United States. His executive order, which raised the visa application fee for new applicants from under $10,000 to $100,000, scrambled stakeholders around the world. Tech giants such as Amazon and Microsoft issued travel advisories to their visa-holding staff, warning them to stay in the US or return to the country within 24 hours.

In 2023, American colleges graduated 134,153 citizens or green card holders with bachelor's or master's degrees in computer science. That same year, our federal government handed out 200,000 H-1B visas.”

Germany faces an acute shortage of skilled workers, with deficits in 163 recognized shortage professions and unfilled skilled job estimates expected to rise significantly over coming years.

Eisenhüttenstadt is offering two weeks of free accommodation to attract skilled workers and former residents in a bid to combat depopulation.