ROCHESTER — On Friday, Sept. 19, President Donald Trump issued a proclamation that imposes a new $100,000 fee on each H-1B visa that a company applies for.

This change could impact non-U.S. physician recruitment at Mayo Clinic, which applies to sponsor hundreds of potential employees’ H-1B visas each year, per data from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

This type of visa allows non-U.S. professionals in specialty occupations to work in the country for up to six years.

Typically, the cost for an employer to sponsor an H-1B visa is $3,380, said Bo Cooper, a Washington, D.C.-based immigration attorney and partner at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy.

“The new $100,000 fee is a big jump, but it does not apply across the board to every H-1B, or every year, as had been initially

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