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H 1B Visa Fee Ruled Unlawful: Judge Says President Trump Cannot Tax Foreign Workers to Pay for Border Wall
A US federal judge has ruled that President Trump's $100,000 H 1B visa fee is unlawful. The Silicon Review asks: since when does a president have the power to tax legal immigrants to fund a wall that Congress already refused to pay for? A United States federal judge just struck down President Donald Trump's $100,000 H 1B visa fee. The ruling calls the fee unlawful. Unauthorized. A blatant overreach of executive power. Here is what the president tried to do. He imposed a $100,000 surcharge on every H 1B visa application. Not for tech companies. Not for processing. For the border wall. A wall that Congress explicitly refused to fund multiple times. The H 1B visa is a nonimmigrant visa that allows United States companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations requiring technical expertise. Technology giants like Google, Microsoft, Amazon, and Apple rely on the H 1B visa to fill critical engineering and software development roles when qualified American workers are not available. President Trump decided that these workers should pay for his signature campaign promise. One hundred thousand dollars per visa. On top of existing filing fees that already exceed several thous...
