US companies are less willing to hire international workers or sponsor their visas, another sign that President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown is reshaping corporate hiring policies.
Twenty-nine percent of American companies said they were open to hiring foreign business school graduates in 2026, down from 33% last year and 55% in 2022, according to a survey of corporate recruiters by the Graduate Management Admission Council.
US employers including JPMorgan Chase & Co., Amazon.com Inc., Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. have long been willing to pay large sums to obtain immigration lawyers and visas for top foreign-born talent. Applications for three-year visas start around $8,000 a pop, said Anne Walsh, an attorney at Corporate Immigration Partners. But some of the surveyed recruiters said changing federal immigration policies have forced them to reconsider. A quarter said that they are still planning to hire foreign workers and base them out of overseas offices instead of in the US.
