🔗 Share this article Trump's Organization Attempted to Hire Almost 200 Employees on Work Permits in 2025 Donald Trump’s family business accelerated its hiring of foreign workers on temporary visas this year, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis released recently claimed. Based on data from the US Department of Labor, the business sought to hire at least 184 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 requests for temporary work visas covering staff including servers, clerks, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the highest ever submitted by the organization, and up from over 120 in 2021, when Trump’s first term ended. It was also the fifth instance in 10 years that the former president had attempted to hire over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, based on labor statistics. The revelation comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has involved the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists. Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period Trump has been in the presidency, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025. Notably, the former president was questioned by some in the Republican party this period for remarks justifying the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions. “You can’t just say a nation is coming in, going to invest $10bn to construct a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start making their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees undercut the pay of US workers. The White House refused a inquiry for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an inquiry.