Current H-1B visa holders can still leave and re-enter the country as normal, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Saturday. An engineer at a large tech company whose wife was on the Emirates flight told Reuters at least five people chose to disembark. His wife, an H-1B visa holder, decided to still head to India to care for her sick mother, he said. open image in gallery Video shows Emirates passengers preparing to disembark a plane from San Francisco to Dubai after President Donald Trump's H-1B visa application fee announcement sparked confusion. H-1B visas bring highly skilled foreign workers to the U.S. for jobs that are deemed difficult to fill.