Trump loses bid to restart $100,000 H-1B fee during appeal

As we previously reported, the $100,000 barrier effectively ended H-1B access for all but elite corporations, severing a visa-to-green-card route long tied to Asian American economic mobility.

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The $100,000 fee that President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B petitions will stay blocked after a federal appeals court declined to suspend the ruling that struck it down.

Against the fee

A three-judge panel of the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston left the lower court’s decision standing on Friday, concluding that th…