Lawsuit - $100K H1B Visa Fee

 Lawsuit - $100K H1B Visa Fee

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce sued the Trump administration Thursday over hefty new fees in the H-1B visa program, joining the legal campaign against the administration’s changes to a program used by some of the biggest tech companies in the U.S.

The lawsuit puts the chamber among the few business groups to challenge the Trump administration in court over policies they say will hurt employers. An earlier lawsuit over the $100,000 fee for new visa applications was filed in federal court in California by a healthcare-staffing business and labor unions.

The chamber’s lawsuit is seeking to block the new H-1B program restrictions, which were rolled out in a presidential proclamation that the chamber says “is not only misguided policy; it is plainly unlawful.”

“The President has significant authority over the entry of noncitizens into the United States, but that authority is bounded by statute and cannot directly contradict laws passed by Congress,” it said in a complaint filed in federal court in Washington, D.C.

Source: WSJ.com