A coalition of labor unions, health care providers, religious organizations, and university professors filed a lawsuit on Oct. 3 seeking to prevent the Trump administration from imposing a one-time $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications.
The coalition sought to challenge President Donald Trump’s Sept. 18 proclamation introducing the six-figure fee for new H-1B visa applications—a program that allows U.S. companies to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty occupation fields.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, states that the proclamation exceeds Trump’s Constitutional power as president and conflicts with the statutory framework of the H-1B program….