Big ·NvidiaJensen Huang shrugs off Trump’s $100K visa fee, says Nvidia will foot the potential $147 million bill anyway: ‘Legal immigration remains essential’By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezBy Marco Quiroz-GutierrezReporterMarco Quiroz-GutierrezReporterRole: ReporterMarco Quiroz-Gutierrez is a reporter for Fortune covering general news.SEE FULL BIO Jensen Huang, CEO of NvidiaJohannes Neudecker—picture alliance/Getty ImagesCEO Jensen Huang said Nvidia will keep sponsoring H-1B visa employees, but Trump’s new $100,000 fee means the company may have to shell out millions more to keep doing so.
Nvidia would have to pay an estimated $147.3 million if President Donald Trump’s newest fee applied to the H-1B visa-holders the company got apved in 2025, according to a calculation based on data from U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services. The new $100,000 fee applies only to new H-1B visa applicants and not to those renewing their visas or current visa-holders.
“Legal immigration remains essential to ensuring the U.S. continues to lead in nology and ideas,” Huang reportedly wrote in an internal employee memo this week, Insider reported.
While even a multimillion-dollar potential jump in Nvidia’s fee payments for visa applicants may seem insignificant for a company with a market cap of $4.5 trillion, the new charges represent a big increase from the between $2,000 and $5,000 per applicant companies were paying before.
A spokesperson for Nvidia declined to . Essential for talent Nvidia is not in the top 10 of Fortune 500 companies with the most employees apved for an H-1B visa in 2025.
Other Fortune 500 companies with more H-1B visas apved this year include Amazon, Microsoft, and Meta, according to government data. Huang, who was born in Taiwan and came to the U.S.
as a child, previously spoke positively President Trump on the new H-1B visa changes, but has recently criticized some parts of the effort.
While Huang has always been -immigration, he previously said he was “glad to see” Trump sign the executive order that levied the new H-1B visa fee.
After his initially positive response, Huang noted in a podcast interview last month that while the new fee eliminates abuse of the visa system, the $100,000 fee “bably sets the bar a little too high.” In the internal memo this week, Huang said Nvidia would continue to sponsor H-1B visa employees and talked up his support for immigrant workers.
“As one of many immigrants at Nvidia, I know that the opportunities we’ve found in America have foundly shaped our s,” he wrote in the memo, according to Insider.
“And the miracle of Nvidia—built by all of you, and by brilliant colleagues around the world—would not be possible without immigration.”Fortune Global Forum returns Oct. 26–27, 2025 in Riyadh.
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