President Trump imposed a $100,000 application fee on H-1B visas and unveiled “Gold Card” residency programs costing up to $5 million.

Immigration lawyers warn the fees will “effectively kill” the H-1B program and put American firms at a competitive disadvantage globally.

The changes create a gilded age of immigration, a system favoring wealthy applicants while raising barriers for those with lesser means.

President Trump took his most extensive step yet toward overhauling the U.S. legal migration system, with a pair of proclamations that explicitly favor the wealthiest of the world’s prospective expat workers.

Trump on Friday imposed a $100,000 application fee on the widely used H-1B visa program, a move that would drastically increase the cost of visas heavily coveted by some of Amer

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