Donald Trump's proclamation imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas got its first legal hurdle as a coalition of unions, employers and religious groups filed a lawsuit challenging the fee in federal court in San Francisco. The lawsuit cited the case of an Indian woman named Phoenix Doe, who has been hit hard by the fee hike. According to the lawsuit, Phoenix Doe is a citizen of India residing in the Northern District of California. She is a postdoctoral researcher at a US university whose cap-exempt H-1B petition has been halted due to the $100,000 fee imposed by the Proclamation. Doe's research focuses on identifying the genetic and epigenetic causes of vision loss due to aging, diseases such as diabetes, and rare inherited genetic abnormalities of unknown etiology, with the goal of fi

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