U.S. President Donald Trump's overhaul of the H-1B visa
program in October made it more expensive and difficult to get
highly-skilled immigrant workers into the United States - and
likely gave Canada's Start-Up Visa Program a
much-needed boost.
Under the sweeping changes to the H-1B visa program in the
United States, the wage scale employers use to figure out how much
to pay highly-skilled foreign workers was bumped up by the U.S.
Department of Labor.
The move came as the U.S. Department of Homeland Security also
upped the degree requirements for those applying under the H-1B
visa program which counts an estimated 600,000 visa holders in the
United States.
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