🔗 Share this article Trump's Business Attempted to Bring In Nearly 200 Employees on Visas in 2025 Donald Trump’s corporate entity increased its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the identical, an analysis released recently claimed. According to information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 foreign workers in the coming year for short-term roles at the US president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his Virginia winery. The number of applications for H-2A and H-2B visas covering staff including waitstaff, office assistants, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the highest ever filed by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended. It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics. The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his administration that has included the implementation of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; extra scrutiny of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters. In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Notably, the former president was questioned by certain in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill certain positions. “You cannot just say a country is entering, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to take people off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that effectively,” he told a host after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the pay of American employees. The White House declined a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.