Companies and affected H-1B holders initially scrambled to figure out who would be subject to paying the new visa fee

When the news came, it was like “a bolt out of the blue”, Seattle-based Tang said. She and her husband flew back from China to the US on September 20 amid urgent directives from their firms’ legal departments to immediately return to America.

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