Article #46434

South China Morning Post - World News

South China Morning Post - World News

Title Trump’s US$100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unlawful tax, judge rules Source South China Morning Post - World News
Description 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...
Link https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3356420/trumps-us100000-h-1b-visa-fee-unlawful-tax-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed Published At 2026-06-08 14:11:42 (1 month ago)
Created At 2026-06-08 14:12:17 Updated At 2026-06-08 14:12:17