Hiring of high-skilled foreign graduates of US colleges will likely run into new hurdles under a second term for Donald J. Trump, who for months attacked immigrant communities and promised mass deportation for undocumented immigrants.
His election victory will potentially mean new restrictions on the legal immigration system that rarely featured in campaign discourse, but is essential for many employers to find high-demand workers in industries like tech and engineering.
International college graduates pursuing H-1B visas and workers seeking employment-based green cards can expect the process “to be more bureaucratic, more delayed, with more requirements imposed—the same as we saw the last time,” said David Bier, director of immigration studies at the Cato Institute, a libertarian public policy think tank.
Although USCIS completed an overhaul of the annual lottery that awards the visas earlier this year, it has yet to finalize remaining provisions of the proposed regulations, which many attorneys criticized for narrowing the definition of the types of “specialty” occupations that qualify for the visa.
“There is still time for it to be finalized,” said Jorge Loweree, managing director of programs and strategy at the American Immigration Council, a nonpartisan group that advocates for a more welcoming immigration system. “We hope the administration will...
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