{"id":1040006,"date":"2026-10-01T08:36:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1040006"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:57:35","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T03:27:35","slug":"second-judge-blocks-trumps-100000-fee-for-new-h-1b-worker-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/01\/second-judge-blocks-trumps-100000-fee-for-new-h-1b-worker-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Second judge blocks Trump&#8217;s $100,000 fee for new H-1B worker visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked an unprecedented $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump has imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers. <\/p>\n<p>US District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled that US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department failed to follow necessary rule-making processes before implementing Trump&#8217;s fee. <\/p>\n<p>Gilliam, appointed by then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, granted a request by a coalition of unions, employers and nonprofits to block the agencies from implementing Trump&#8217;s fee pending the outcome of a lawsuit they filed in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second federal judge on Wednesday blocked an unprecedented $100,000 fee that US President Donald Trump has imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers. US District Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled that US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the State Department failed to follow necessary rule-making processes before implementing Trump&#8217;s fee. Gilliam, appointed by then-President Barack Obama, a Democrat, granted a request by a coalition of unions, employers and nonprofits to block the agencies from implementing Trump&#8217;s fee pending the outcome of a lawsuit they filed in October.<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1040006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040006","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=1040006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040029,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1040006\/revisions\/1040029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1040006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1040006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1040006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}