Trump admin to extend and expand immigration restrictions (washingtonpost.com)

How likely is this to continue applying beyond the year's end?

The pandemic is also used as a reason to stop consular services around the world, in effect stopping any new visa applications even for non-immigrant visas not mentioned in this article.

The freeze is pretty wide ranging and will apply to:

- H1-B - Specialty occupations

- H4 - Immediate family members of the H-1B visa holders

- L - Intracompany transferees from oversees

- J - Work-and study-based exchange

- H2-B - Temporary non-agricultural workers