Trump Business Attempted to Hire Nearly 200 Workers on Work Permits in 2025

The former president’s corporate entity accelerated its recruitment of overseas employees on temporary visas this period, even as his government was placing obstacles for other companies attempting to do the same, an analysis published Thursday claimed.

Based on data from the federal labor department, the Trump Organization aimed to bring in at least nearly 200 overseas employees in 2025 for temporary positions at the US president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, golf facilities and his Virginia winery.

The quantity of requests for H-2A and H-2B visas covering workers including waitstaff, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record submitted by the organization, and up from 121 in 2021, when his presidency ended.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that Trump had sought to bring in over a hundred foreign employees for seasonal jobs at Mar-a-Lago, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a crackdown on legal immigration by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and tighter regulations for foreign students and journalists.

Overall, the business sought to employ 566 overseas workers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during 2025.

Notably, the former president was criticized by some in the Republican party this week for remarks justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “specific talents” to occupy certain positions.

“You cannot just say a country is entering, going to spend $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals 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 effectively,” he stated to a interviewer after she suggested that overseas employees undercut the pay of American employees.

The administration refused a inquiry for response, and the business did not immediately respond to an request for information.