Last Friday, the Trump administration unveiled a dramatic overhaul of a key work visa program,

announcing a huge increase in cost for the H-1B visa.

What this proclamation will do is raise the fee that companies pay to sponsor H-1B applicants to $100,000.

The H-1B program allows U.S. companies to hire highly skilled foreign workers,

and the administration says the goal of this change is to open up more jobs for American citizens.

We need workers. We need workers. We need great workers.

And this pretty much ensures that that's what's going to happen.

I think...

The announcement was unexpected.

And right away, it caused a lot of chaos and confusion.

The proclamation the President put out late Friday said that this new policy would take effect

at 12.01 a.m. Eastern Time Sunday. And that's the message that sent a lot of people scrambling.

That's our colleague, Amrith Ram Kumar.

So you basically had a little more than 24 hours to get back to the U.S. if you were somewhere

else. Immediately, there were concerns that H-1B visa holders traveling abroad would have to pay a huge fee to re-enter the U.S. if you were somewhere else. Immediately, there were concerns that H-1B visa holders traveling abroad would have to pay a huge fee to re-enter the U.S.

And some lawyers started encouraging people to come back to the States.

If you're traveling abroad and you're on an H-1B visa, you better come back ASAP.

This is urgent, time-sensitive.

If you have a brother, a sister, a best friend, they need to book their flights now

and come back immediately.

In some cases, folks rush to change their plans mid-travel.

I'm so mad and frustrated right now because me and my wife, we were planning to go to Korea

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