{"id":272060,"date":"2026-06-09T14:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T10:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=272060"},"modified":"2026-06-09T15:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T11:03:53","slug":"court-rules-trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-for-foreign-workers-unlawful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/272060\/","title":{"rendered":"Court rules Trump\u2019s $100,000 H-1B visa fee for foreign workers unlawful"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A US federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled ‌foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax Congress never authorized, Reuters<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

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, which tech companies in particular rely heavily on to bring on foreign workers.<\/p>\n

The administration argued the fee constituted a lawful monetary penalty that the president was authorized to impose under federal immigration law, which gives him the power to restrict the entry of certain foreign nationals when he deems it “detrimental to the interests of the ⁠United States.”<\/p>\n

But Sorokin concluded that the fee was not a penalty but a tax that the Republican president lacked any authorization from Congress to issue and that the US State Department and US Citizenship and Immigration Services could not implement.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A US federal judge on Monday struck down a $100,000 fee US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled ‌foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax Congress never authorized, Reuters writes. US District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling, in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":272045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272061,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272060\/revisions\/272061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}