US judge strikes down Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, calls it unlawful tax
A US federal judge on Monday struck down the $100,000 fee imposed by President Donald Trump on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, calling it unlawful, reported Reuters.
District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston ruled that the fee, announced by Trump in September last year, was an unlawful tax that the President did not have authorisation to issue and that it usurped the Congress’s power to set immigration policy and taxes.
“Here, the substance and application of the USD 100,000 payment reveal that it is a tax, regardless of what the payment is called,” Judge Sorokin wrote.
