The Trump administration on Monday proposed a rule to make a more than $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas permanent, after a court blocked the fee that Trump first imposed last year. The proposed $103,265 fee would start a 30-day public comment period and could be finalized by the end of the year. The H-1B program is heavily used by tech, education and research employers, while critics say it is abused and supporters say it helps fill jobs lacking qualified American workers.
A close-up view of a U.S. visa. Courtesy of Pixabay
President Donald Trump's administration on Monday released a proposed regulation to codify an unprecedented more than $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers that Trump first imposed last year but has been blocked by the courts.
The fee first imposed by Trump in a temporary proclamation last year vastly raises the cost of the visas that are heavily relied on in the tech, education and research sectors. A federal judge in June ruled that the fee was illegal and blocked the Trump administration from collecting it.
A Boston-based appeals court is reviewing that decision while a different court considers whether a judge in Washington, D.C., properly rejected a challenge to the fee by a major business group.
