Judge blocks Trump's $100,000 H-1B visa fee
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A federal judge on Monday vacated President Donald Trump's $100,000 fee for employers' H-1B visa applications for highly-skilled foreign workers.
The policy implementing the high fee on the visas for workers in a specialty occupation violated the federal Administrative Procedure Act and the Constitution, Judge Leo Sorokin declared in the ruling in U.S. District Court in Boston.
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