Trump Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Visas in 2025

Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his administration was creating barriers for other companies attempting to do the identical, a report published recently claimed.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization sought to hire at least 184 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the former president’s Florida property, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, clerks, cleaning staff, culinary employees and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that Trump had sought to hire over a hundred foreign employees for temporary positions at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The disclosure coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has involved the implementation 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 international scholars and journalists.

In total, the business sought to hire 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, Trump was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks defending the necessity for foreign workers when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a facility, and going to take people off an jobless roster who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their missiles. It isn’t feasible that well,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees lower the wages of US workers.

The administration refused a request for response, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.