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Donald Trump’s corporate entity accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on temporary visas this year, while his government was creating barriers for other companies wanting to do the same, an analysis released recently stated.

According to data from the US Department of Labor, the business aimed to hire at least 184 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago resort, two golf clubs and his winery in Virginia.

The quantity of requests for temporary work visas for staff including servers, office assistants, housekeepers, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the company, and up from 121 in the previous term, when Trump’s first term ended.

It was also the fifth time in 10 years that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for seasonal jobs at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.

The disclosure comes amid a tightening on legal immigration by his government that has included the introduction of a $100,000 fee on H1-B visas; increased review of the activities of the 55 million people who possess American work permits; and tighter regulations for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to employ 566 foreign laborers over the period the former president has been in the White House, from his first term and during 2025.

Significantly, the former president was criticized by certain in the GOP this period for remarks defending the need for overseas employees when a company was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy certain positions.

“You can’t just say a nation is entering, going to spend $10bn to construct a plant, and going to take people off an unemployment line who haven’t worked in years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It doesn’t work that well,” he told a interviewer after she suggested that foreign workers undercut the wages of American employees.

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