Washington: The US Chamber of Commerce, the country’s biggest business organisation, has sued the Trump administration over the $100,000 H-1B visa application fee, calling it “unlawful”. In a lawsuit filed in a district court in Washington on Thursday, the plaintiff argued that the visa fee, if implemented, would “inflict significant harm on American businesses” and force them to “either dramatically increase their labour costs or hire fewer highly skilled employees for whom domestic replacements are not readily available.”

It added that Trump’s September 19 proclamation is “plainly unlawful” and a “boon to America’s economic rivals”. “The Proclamation is not only misguided policy; it is plainly unlawful. The President has significant authority over the entry of noncitizens into the Unite

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