Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers

What Proclamation 2025-18601 says

Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 183 (Wednesday, September 24, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 183 (Wednesday, September 24, 2025)] [Presidential Documents] [Pages 46027-46030] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-18601] Presidential Documents Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 183 / Wednesday, September 24, 2025 / Presidential Documents [[Page 46027]] Proclamation 10973 of September 19, 2025 Restriction on Entry of Certain Nonimmigrant Workers By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation The H-1B nonimmigrant visa program was created to bring temporary workers into the United States to perform additive, high-skilled functions, but it has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower- skilled labor. The large-scale replacement of American workers through systemic abuse of the program has undermined both our economic and national security. Some employers, using practices now widely adopted by entire sectors, have abused the H-1B statute and its regulations to artificially suppress wages, resulting in a disadvantageous labor market for American citizens, while at the same time making it more difficult to attract and retain the highest skilled subset of temporary workers, with the largest impact seen in critical science, technology...

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