Walmart Inc. has temporarily halted extending job offers to candidates requiring H-1B work visas, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter.

The decision follows the Trump administration’s recent move to impose a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications, a policy that has disrupted hiring plans across multiple industries.

According to the report, the pause primarily affects Walmart’s corporate workforce, though its scale remains limited compared with the company’s overall US headcount of about 1.6 million employees.

Government data show Walmart employs around 2,390 H-1B visa holders, making it the largest user of such visas among major retail chains. However, this figure is still far lower than those of technology giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, which rely

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