Federal judge rules Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas unlawful

In his ruling, Sorokin’s found that the fee amounted to a tax, rather than a regulatory restriction. Since the constitution gives Congress, not the president, the exclusive power to levy taxes, Trump lacked the authority to impose it...

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/08/trump-h-1b-visa-fee-invalidated

 

20 states lodge lawsuit against Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee - POLITICO

Bonta claimed that the increases for the skilled-worker visa are illegal because they exceed what Congress has authorized and undermine its intent in establishing the program. All of the states joining the lawsuit have Democratic attorneys general...

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/12/trump-visa-fee-lawsuit-00689510 

 

The U.S. relies on immigrant physicians. What if they no longer want to come? : Shots - Health News : NPR

Immigrants make up a significant proportion of all the country's doctors. New policies are making it harder and less appealing for foreign-born physicians to come to the U.S...

https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/11/24/nx-s1-5618291/immigrant-physicians-foreign-born-doctors-trump-h1b 

 

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Trump signs proclamation imposing annual $100,000 fee on H-1B visas

Immigration experts are questioning whether the executive branch has the authority to impose the exorbitant annual fee. 

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick, senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, said on Bluesky: "the president has literally zero legal authority to impose a $100,000 fee on visas. None. Zip. Zilch. The only authority Congress has ever given the executive branch here is to charge fees to recover the cost of processing the application."… 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/19/trump-h1b-visa-100000-fee

 

How Tech Company Recruiters Sidestep Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica

The report found that there had been more than 136,000 applicants for 18,011 PERM openings that it examined, but that only 104 people were hired via advertisements — less than 1% — and those hirings were almost accidental. (The companies kept the foreign workers they were sponsoring, but came across a tiny smattering of qualified Americans, whom they also hired.) "The system is seriously flawed," the report stated. "The programs are being manipulated and abused."… 

Advocacy groups representing American tech workers have attacked the system repeatedly, challenging the notion that H-1Bs are bringing in the world's "best and brightest" by pointing out that the program makes no attempt to identify exceptional talent beyond requiring a bachelor's degree, relying instead on a lottery to award the visas. The real appeal of H-1Bs for employers, worker advocates say, is that they can pay their holders an average of 10% to 20% less, as several studies have found to be the case, which has helped suppress tech wages more broadly…

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-immigration-h1b-visas-perm-tech-jobs-recruitment