President Donald Trump raised the fee for an H-1B visa to $100,000 on Sept. 19, creating some confusion for employers and prompting concern for Catholic immigration advocates. Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, also known as CLINIC, told OSV News Sept. 22 that the organization "strongly opposes the steep new H-1B visa fee, which sets a troubling precedent for pricing people out of legal immigration pathways." "So, while the approach of charging such a high fee for a visa is questionable, the idea of regulating how we recruit highly skilled foreign workers and its impact on poor nations is not," he argued. But White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X it was "a one-time fee," that "applies only to new visas, not renewals, and not current visa holders." H-1B visas are granted to eligible highly skilled professionals so that they may legally work in specialty fields or occupations in the United States.