{"id":152631,"date":"2026-06-08T18:11:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152631"},"modified":"2026-06-08T18:11:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T18:11:42","slug":"trumps-us100000-h-1b-visa-fee-is-an-unlawful-tax-judge-rulesunited-states-canada-south-china-morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152631","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s US$100,000 H-1B visa fee is an unlawful tax, judge rulesUnited States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA federal \u2060judge on Monday \u2060struck down a US$100,000 fee that \u2060US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, concluding that it constituted an unlawful tax that Congress never authorised.<br \/>\nUS District Judge Leo Sorokin \u200cin Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging a fee Trump announced in September that dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H-1B visas.<br \/>\nThe H-1B programme offers 65,000 visas&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/world\/united-states-canada\/article\/3356420\/trumps-us100000-h-1b-visa-fee-unlawful-tax-judge-rules?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: United States &amp; Canada &#8211; South China Morning PostA federal \u2060judge on Monday \u2060struck down a US$100,000 fee that \u2060US President Donald Trump imposed on new H-1B visas for&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152631"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}