President Donald Trump's Sept. 19 proclamation requiring U.S. institutions to pay $100,000 for each petition to bring a single immigrant worker to the country on an H-1B visa could have ramifications for current and prospective Greater Akron employers and employees.

Farhad Sethna, an immigration and business attorney who owns the practice Immigration America in Cuyahoga Falls, said the proclamation's premise that the H-1B visa program has been exploited by low-paid and low-skilled workers is untrue, given the already-existing qualifications for an immigrant to work in the U.S. on one of the visas.

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