{"id":995594,"date":"2026-02-28T09:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T03:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995594"},"modified":"2026-02-28T09:39:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:09:45","slug":"100000-h-1b-fees-gets-a-reality-check-how-a-court-ruling-could-derail-trumps-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/100000-h-1b-fees-gets-a-reality-check-how-a-court-ruling-could-derail-trumps-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"$100,000 H-1B fees gets a reality check: How a court ruling could derail Trump\u2019s policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland courtroom fight over US President Donald Trump\u2019s $100,000 fee on certain H-1B workers took a notable turn on Thursday, after a government lawyer revealed that only about 70 employers have actually paid the charge so far, Bloomberg reported. <\/p>\n<p>The hiked fee applies to H-1B workers hired from outside the United States. It was imposed through a White House proclamation in September as part of an ongoing immigration crackdown. <\/p>\n<p>At a hearing in Oakland on Thursday, a government lawyer said that low number tells its own story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Oakland courtroom fight over US President Donald Trump\u2019s $100,000 fee on certain H-1B workers took a notable turn on Thursday, after a government lawyer revealed that only about 70 employers have actually paid the charge so far, Bloomberg reported. The hiked fee applies to H-1B workers hired from outside the United States. It was imposed through a White House proclamation in September as part of an ongoing immigration crackdown. At a hearing in Oakland on Thursday, a government lawyer said that low number tells its own story.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995594","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=995594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}