Trump’s US$100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unlawful tax, judge rules

South China Morning Post

Trump’s US$100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unlawful tax, judge rules

A federal ⁠judge on Monday ⁠struck down a US$100,000 fee that ⁠US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorised. US District Judge Leo Sorokin ‌in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas. The H-1B programme offers 65,000 visas...

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