Trump Business Sought to Bring In Nearly 200 Workers on Visas in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity increased its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his administration was creating barriers for other businesses attempting to do the same, an analysis released Thursday stated.

Based on information from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization sought to bring in at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the company, and up from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had attempted to bring in over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to available data.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on skilled worker visas; increased review of the activities of the millions of people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for foreign students and reporters.

Overall, the business aimed to hire over 560 overseas workers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for foreign workers when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to fill particular roles.

“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to recruit individuals off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their missiles. It doesn’t work that well,” he stated to a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers.

The White House declined a inquiry for comment, and the Trump Organization did not provide an answer to an inquiry.