{"id":1023983,"date":"2026-07-27T10:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023983"},"modified":"2026-07-27T10:27:41","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:57:41","slug":"us-court-refuses-to-revive-trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-for-skilled-foreign-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/us-court-refuses-to-revive-trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-for-skilled-foreign-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"US court refuses to revive Trump\u2019s $100,000 H-1B visa fee for skilled foreign workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Donald Trump administration&#8217;s request to revive its controversial $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, leaving in place a lower court ruling that struck down the charge as an unlawful tax not authorised by Congress. <\/p>\n<p>The Boston-based First US Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration&#8217;s motion to stay a June 8 ruling by US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin, who invalidated the fee in a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from 20 Democratic-led states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A US federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Donald Trump administration&#8217;s request to revive its controversial $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, leaving in place a lower court ruling that struck down the charge as an unlawful tax not authorised by Congress. The Boston-based First US Circuit Court of Appeals denied the administration&#8217;s motion to stay a June 8 ruling by US District Judge Leo T. Sorokin, who invalidated the fee in a lawsuit brought by attorneys general from 20 Democratic-led states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1023983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1023983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1024004,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023983\/revisions\/1024004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}