{"id":965975,"date":"2025-10-04T09:49:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965975"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:51:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T04:21:49","slug":"lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-trumps-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/04\/lawsuit-seeks-to-stop-trumps-100000-fee-for-h-1b-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawsuit seeks to stop Trump&#8217;s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the plan, saying it has &#8220;thrown employers, workers and federal agencies into chaos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on September 19 requiring the new fee, saying the H-1B visa program &#8220;has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labour.&#8221; The changes were slated to go into effect in 36 hours, which caused panic for employers, who instructed their workers to return to the US immediately.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what appears to be the first major challenge to the new $100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications, a coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit Friday to stop the plan, saying it has &#8220;thrown employers, workers and federal agencies into chaos.&#8221; President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on September 19 requiring the new fee, saying the H-1B visa program &#8220;has been deliberately exploited to replace, rather than supplement, American workers with lower-paid, lower-skilled labour.&#8221; The changes were slated to go into effect in 36 hours, which caused panic for employers, [&hellip;]<\/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-965975","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\/965975","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=965975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}