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The former president’s family business accelerated its hiring of overseas employees on short-term work permits this period, even as his administration was placing obstacles for other businesses attempting to do the same, a report released Thursday stated.

Based on information from the US Department of Labor, the Trump Organization aimed to hire at least nearly 200 overseas employees in the coming year for short-term roles at the former president’s Florida property, golf facilities and his winery in Virginia.

The number of requests for temporary work visas for workers including servers, office assistants, cleaning staff, kitchen staff and agricultural laborers was the record filed by the organization, and increased from 121 in 2021, when Trump’s first term concluded.

It was also the fifth instance in a decade that the former president had sought to hire over a hundred overseas workers for temporary positions at his Florida resort, according to labor statistics.

The revelation coincides with a tightening on immigration laws by his administration that has included the introduction of a substantial charge on H1-B visas; increased review of the actions of the 55 million people who already hold US visas; and restrictive new rules for international scholars and journalists.

In total, the Trump Organization aimed to hire 566 foreign laborers over the five years Trump has been in the White House, from 2017 to 2021 and during the upcoming year.

Significantly, Trump was criticized by some in the Republican party this period for comments justifying the necessity for overseas employees when a business was unable to find people with “particular skills” to occupy particular roles.

“You cannot just say a country is coming in, going to invest $10bn to build a facility, and going to recruit individuals off an unemployment line who have been unemployed in five years, and they’re going to start producing their defense systems. It isn’t feasible that well,” he told a interviewer after it was implied that overseas employees lower the wages of American employees.

The administration declined a request for comment, and the business did not provide an answer to an request for information.