{"id":995692,"date":"2026-02-28T11:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=995692"},"modified":"2026-02-28T11:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:55:08","slug":"only-70-who-is-paying-the-100000-fee-for-hiring-h-1b-workers-trump-administration-informs-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/28\/only-70-who-is-paying-the-100000-fee-for-hiring-h-1b-workers-trump-administration-informs-court\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Only 70&#8217;: Who is paying the $100,000 fee for hiring H-1B workers? Trump administration informs court"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing lawsuit over the $100,000 fee for hiring skilled workers from foreign countries, as imposed by the Donald Trump administration, the administration informed a court that only 70 employees have so far paid the fee since it was imposed in September. The number is not huge and in fact rather low and that&#8217;s why this can&#8217;t be seen as a revenue-generating measure for the government and thus it does not require Congressional authorization Department of Justice attorney Tiberius Davis said in a court hearing.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is on whether the imposition of the fee for a visa program is legal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an ongoing lawsuit over the $100,000 fee for hiring skilled workers from foreign countries, as imposed by the Donald Trump administration, the administration informed a court that only 70 employees have so far paid the fee since it was imposed in September. The number is not huge and in fact rather low and that&#8217;s why this can&#8217;t be seen as a revenue-generating measure for the government and thus it does not require Congressional authorization Department of Justice attorney Tiberius Davis said in a court hearing. The lawsuit is on whether the imposition of the fee for a visa program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-995692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995692","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}