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  • Judge blocks Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee

    06/08/2026 11:06:51 AM PDT · by thegagline · 50 replies
    CNBC ^ | 06/08/2026 | Kevin Mreuninger
    A federal judge on Monday vacated President Donald Trump’s policy imposing a $100,000 fee for employers’ H-1B visa applications. The visa payment policy violated the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, Judge Leo Sorokin declared in the ruling in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. The H-1B policy was created in 1990 and is heavily used by U.S. tech giants to bring in high-skilled workers from overseas. The program allows U.S. employers to seek government permission to hire a nonimmigrant workers in specialty occupations for up to six years. Trump implemented the $100,000 fee in a presidential proclamation last September...