A federal judge in Boston struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications on Monday. The ruling deemed it an unauthorised tax that Congress never approved and that federal agencies had no authority to collect, according to a report by Reuters.
US District Judge Leo Sorokin issued the ruling in a lawsuit brought by 20 Democratic state attorneys general. The Judge concluded that the charge functioned as a tax rather than a lawful penalty, despite how the administration characterised it as a lawful monetary penalty that the president was authorised to impose.