Judge throws out policy imposing $100,000 fees for skilled worker visas

San Juan Daily Star

Judge throws out policy imposing $100,000 fees for skilled worker visas

By ZACH MONTAGUE A Trump administration initiative to impose $100,000 fees on employers seeking visas for skilled foreign workers amounts to an unlawful tax on those companies and must be voided “in its entirety,” a federal judge ruled Monday. The decision by U.S. District Judge Leo T. Sorokin in Massachusetts nullified one of a series of tactics the administration has used to restrict legal immigration, even in fields in which foreign skilled labor helped address severe shortages. In a...

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