根据美利坚合众国宪法和法律赋予我作为总统的权力,特此命令: 第 1 节:目的。 H-1B 非移民签证计划旨在识别具有独特技能和高度专业化的外国临时工人,以战略性地补充美国经济。相反,该计划 [...] 增强 H-1B 非移民签证计划管理中的计划完整性和完整性及机构间协调的帖子首先出现在白宫。
总统行动
加强 H-1B 非移民签证计划管理中的计划完整性和机构间协调
行政命令
2026 年 9 月 18 日
根据美利坚合众国宪法和法律赋予我的总统权力,特此命令:
第 1 节。目的 。 H-1B 非移民签证计划旨在识别具有独特技能和高度专业化的外国临时工人,以战略性地补充美国经济。相反,该计划被某些雇主、第三方安置团体和外包公司广泛滥用,以削弱和取代美国熟练劳动力的供应。大规模、系统性地滥用 H-1B 计划来获取不合格的外国劳动力,破坏了该计划的附加目的,并损害了美国技术工人的工资、工作条件和就业机会。
滥用廉价 H-1B 劳动力给国内工资带来下行压力。尽管法定要求 H-1B 工人与国内同行享有同等报酬,但 H-1B 签证持有者的收入远低于美国出生的工人,估计工资差距从 9,000 美元开始,在依赖 H-1B 的行业最高可达 20,000 美元。一家公司甚至警告其股东,对廉价 H-1B 劳动力的限制可能会迫使公司使用“当地”工人,而这些工人“可能只能以更高的工资才能获得”。
许多雇主解雇了大量高技能的美国工人,只是为了立即雇用大量通常技能较低、工资较低的 H-1B 工人。例如,科技行业的雇主集体为数十万工人申请了 H-1B 签证,但从 2022 年到 2026 年,他们也解雇了 80 万至 130 万美国员工。雇主甚至强迫被解雇的美国工人培训其外国替代者。
H-1B 工人所从事的许多工作最终完全离开美国。采用外包业务模式的雇主使用 H-1B 签证持有者团队来替换第三方客户企业的美国工人,并与在原籍国异地工作的其他人员进行联络。一旦可行,他们自己的大部分工作都会转移到海外。 2026 财年,采用这种外包业务模式运营的 H-1B 计划的前六名用户占 H-1B 上限注册数量超过 25,000 人。一位外国外长甚至公开承认H-1B“已经成为外包签证”。
有系统、有组织地滥用 H-1B 计划也是对国家安全的威胁。国内执法机构对依赖 H-1B 的外包公司进行了调查,这些公司涉嫌签证欺诈、共谋洗钱以及其他鼓励外国工人来美国的非法活动。滥用 H-1B 计划还阻碍美国人从事科学技术职业,从而危及美国在这些领域的重要领导地位,从而对国家安全构成威胁。
许多行政部门和机构(机构)已指出雇主大规模、系统性地滥用 H-1B 计划,从国外获取低薪、低技能的劳动力。这些正在进行的政府调查继续发现 H-1B 雇主中普遍存在的欺诈和违规行为,例如: 取代美国工人或以其他方式优先考虑外籍工人;歪曲工作机会的职责、要求或工作条件,以避免雇用或培训美国工人,错误地将工作认定为特殊职业,或降低适用的工资要求;通过提交来自文凭工厂的有问题的外国学位作为 H-1B 签证申请的支持,歪曲外国人从事专业职业的资格。这些违规行为的普遍性和违规者的持续存在表明,需要采取更多措施来维护 H-1B 计划的完整性。
我决定必须继续努力保护和优先考虑美国劳动力。因此,美国的政策是,所有相关机构应采取适当措施,保护美国工人免遭滥用 H-1B 计划,并确保该计划符合国家利益。
秒。 2.机构间协调。根据《移民和国籍法》(INA)(8 U.S.C. 1101(a))第 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) 条处理外国人作为非移民进入美国从事特殊职业服务的请愿书、劳动条件申请和签证时,国务卿、劳工部长和国土安全部长应与商务部长、国防部长协调和协商。教育部和小企业管理局局长确保此类请愿书、申请和签证符合法定要求,包括 INA 第 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b)、212(n)、214(i) 和 274B 条中的要求。商务部长、教育部长和小企业管理局局长应提供任何相关的工资、就业、学术、工业或其他经济信息。
秒。 3.考虑申请、请求和签证。 (a) 根据 INA 第 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b)、212(n)、214(i)、215(a) 和 274B 条,国务卿、劳工部长和国土安全部长应在任何劳工条件申请、请愿书、签证和以 H-1B 非移民身份进入或试图进入美国的外国人入境时予以考虑在特殊职业中提供服务,无论雇主担保人在上一年内直接或间接参与裁员,还是计划未来裁员,从而对类似情况的美国工人的就业产生负面影响。
(b) 在本命令发布之日起 30 天内,劳工部长应通过工资和工时部门主管开始审查与先前提交的劳动条件申请相关的数据,以确定是否有必要根据第 212(n)(2)(G) 条对担保雇主采取进一步行动。
(c) 根据 3 U.S.C.根据第 301 条,根据 INA 第 215(a) 条授予总统的权力特此委托给国务卿、商务部长、劳工部长和国土安全部长,以执行该命令所需的程度,包括发布或通过规则、政策、操作指南或其他执行该命令的指南的权力。
秒。 4.一般规定。 (a) 本命令中的任何内容均不得被解释为损害或以其他方式影响:
(i) 法律授予执行部门或机构或其负责人的权力;或
(ii) 管理和预算办公室主任与预算、行政或立法提案有关的职能。
(b) 本命令的执行应符合适用法律并视拨款情况而定。
(c) 本命令无意且不会创造任何实体或程序上的、可由任何一方根据法律或衡平法强制执行的针对美国、其部门、机构或实体、其官员、雇员或代理人或任何其他人的任何权利或利益。
(d) 如果本命令的任何条款或任何条款对任何人或情况的适用被认为无效,则本命令的其余部分以及任何其他条款对任何其他人或情况的适用不应因此受到影响。
(e) 公布本命令的费用应由国土安全部承担。
唐纳德·J·特朗普
白宫,
2026 年 9 月 18 日。
Presidential Actions
ENHANCING PROGRAM INTEGRITY AND INTERAGENCY COORDINATION IN THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE H-1B NONIMMIGRANT VISA PROGRAM
Executive Orders
September 18, 2026
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:
Section 1 . Purpose . The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to identify uniquely skilled and highly specialized foreign temporary workers to strategically supplement the United States economy. Instead, the program has been widely abused by certain employers, third-party placement groups, and outsourcing firms to undercut and displace the supply of skilled United States labor. The large-scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain non-qualifying foreign labor has undermined the additive purpose of the program and harmed the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of skilled American workers.
The abuse of cheaper H-1B labor places downward pressure on domestic pay. H-1B visa holders earn far less than comparable United States-born workers, despite the statutory mandate that H-1B workers be paid equally to their domestic peers, with the estimated wage gap starting at $9,000 and climbing as high as $20,000 in H-1B reliant industries. One company even warned its shareholders that restrictions on cheap H-1B labor could force the company to use “local” workers, which “may only be available at higher wages.”
Many employers have laid off large numbers of highly skilled American workers, only to promptly hire large numbers of H-1B workers who are often lower-skilled and lower-paid. For instance, technology sector employers have collectively requested H-1B visas for hundreds of thousands of workers, yet have also laid off somewhere between 800,000 to 1.3 million American employees from 2022 through 2026. Employers have even forced laid off American workers to train their foreign replacements.
Many jobs held by H-1B workers eventually leave the United States entirely. Employers with outsourcing business models use teams of H-1B visa holders to replace United States workers at third‑party client businesses and liaise with other individuals working off-site from their country of origin. As soon as practicable, much of their own work is transferred offshore. In Fiscal Year 2026, the top six users of the H-1B program operating with this outsourcing business model accounted for over 25,000 H-1B cap registrations. One foreign country’s foreign minister even publicly admitted that H-1B “has become the outsourcing visa.”
The systematic and organized abuse of the H-1B program is also a national security threat. Domestic law enforcement agencies have investigated H-1B-reliant outsourcing firms for engaging in visa fraud, conspiracy to launder money, and other illicit activities to encourage foreign workers to come to the United States. Abuses of the H-1B program also present a national security threat by discouraging Americans from pursuing careers in science and technology, risking vital United States leadership in these fields.
Numerous executive departments and agencies (agencies) have flagged employers’ large‑scale, systematic abuse of the H-1B program to obtain lower‑paid, lower-skilled labor from abroad. These ongoing Government probes continue to identify widespread fraud and noncompliance among H-1B employers, such as: displacing American workers or otherwise giving preference to alien workers; misrepresenting the duties, requirements, or working conditions of job opportunities to avoid hiring or training American workers, falsely qualify jobs as specialty occupations, or lower applicable wage requirements; and misrepresenting aliens’ qualifications to perform specialty occupations by submitting questionable foreign degrees from diploma mills as support for their H-1B visa applications. The pervasiveness of these violations and the persistence of the violators confirm that more needs to be done to preserve the H-1B program’s integrity.
I have determined that continued efforts must be made to protect and prioritize the American workforce. It is therefore the policy of the United States that all relevant agencies shall implement appropriate measures to protect American workers from abuse of the H-1B program and ensure that the program serves the national interest.
Sec . 2 . Interagency Coordination . When processing petitions, labor condition applications, and visas for the entry into the United States of aliens as nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation under section 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)), the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate and consult with the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure the compliance of such petitions, applications, and visas with statutory requirements, including those in sections 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), 212(n), 214(i), and 274B of the INA. The Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Education, and the Administrator of the Small Business Administration shall provide any relevant wage, employment, academic, industrial, or other economic information.
Sec . 3 . Consideration of Applications, Petitions, and Visas . (a) Consistent with sections 101(a)(15)(H)(i)(b), 212(n), 214(i), 215(a), and 274B of the INA, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall take into account in any labor condition application, petition, visa, and entry of aliens entering or attempting to enter the United States as H-1B nonimmigrants to perform services in a specialty occupation whether the employer sponsor directly or indirectly engaged in layoffs within the previous year or plans future layoffs that negatively affect the employment of similarly situated United States workers.
(b) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of Labor, through the Administrator of the Wage and Hour Division, shall begin reviewing data related to previously submitted labor condition applications to determine whether further action against sponsoring employers is warranted under section 212(n)(2)(G).
(c) Pursuant to 3 U.S.C. 301, the authority granted to the President under section 215(a) of the INA is hereby delegated to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Labor, and the Secretary of Homeland Security to the extent necessary to implement this order, including the authority to issue or adopt rules, policies, operational guidance, or other guidance to carry out this order.
Sec . 4 . General Provisions . (a) Nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
(c) This order is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
(d) If any provision of this order, or the application of any provision to any person or circumstances, is held to be invalid, the remainder of this order and the application of any of its other provisions to any other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
(e) The costs for publication of this order shall be borne by the Department of Homeland Security.
DONALD J. TRUMP
THE WHITE HOUSE,
September 18, 2026.