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I wonder if this is applied to H1B renewals too?
IIRC technically there's no such thing as a "renewal". It's just a new application that bypasses the lottery. So given the low level of thought that goes into these EOs, the answer is almost certainly "yes"...
I was wrong. They’re attaching the fee to the lottery, somehow.
Trump answered a reporter's question about this. The fee is $100K per employee per year.