Trump loses bid to impose $100k fee on H-1B visa The Trump administration suffered a setback on Friday after a US federal appeals court refused to lift a ruling that blocks the government from charging a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visas.The 1st US Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston left in place a June…
DHS appeals that the $100K H-1B visa fee is not a tax and it should be reinstated as H-1B abuse is a national security concern. The Department of Homeland Security, in its filing to the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit against the federal judge’s order striking the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, argued…
DHS clarifies what will happen to the H-1B visa fee after a court strikes it down and the administration appeals the ruling. After a court struck down the $100,000 fee on H-1B visas, the Donald Trump administration appealed the ruling by US District Judge Leo Sorokin. But before any further development, the Department of Homeland…
US founder Zach Wilson got trolled after he took the side of Indian students. A former Meta techie, founder Zach Wilson, said he felt proud to be an American after a federal court struck down the $100,000 fee imposed by the Donald Trump administration on the import of H-1B visa holders. Wilson said it was…
A federal judge struck down H-1B visa fee as illegal. In a major blow to the Donald Trump administration and its plan to make H-1B visa program costlier, a federal judge declared that the $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers is unlawful and must…
2 min readBostonJun 8, 2026 11:39 PM IST A federal judge on Monday struck down a $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 authorized. US District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in…
