President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on Aug. 5, 2025. Win McNamee/Getty Images

President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee for H-1B visas is not legal, a federal judge said on June 8.

The fee for visas for specialty foreign workers “imposes a tax on H-1B petitions without the requisite delegation by Congress,” Judge Leo Sorokin of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts said in a 42-page decision.

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