The F-1 Visa (Academic Student) allows you to enter the United States as a full-time student at an accredited college, university, seminary, conservatory, academic high school, elementary school, or other academic institution.

In a big relief for many US visa holders, especially Indians, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has clarified that recent international college graduates already living in the United States will not have to pay the new USD 100,000 H-1B visa fee announced by the Donald Trump administration last month. The fee, introduced under a presidential order on September 19, 2025, had caused a lot of confusion among visa holders and employers because it wasn’t clear who exactly had to pay it.

What the new H-1B visa clarification says

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