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A United States judge has ruled a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas unlawful. President Donald Trump had announced this fee in September. The ruling came after a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general. This fee significantly increased the cost of obtaining H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers. The judge ordered the fee to be invalidated.Listen to this article in summarized format
US District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump had announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas.
This comes days after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin told a Senate panel that more than 200,000 applicants seeking H-1B visas to work in the US paid $100,000 for expedited processing during fiscal year 2026.
