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The US Chamber of Commerce has filed a lawsuit against the Donald Trump administration’s decision to impose a USD 100,000 fee on all new H-1B visa petitions, describing it as “misguided policy and plainly unlawful” action that could cripple American innovation and competitiveness.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in a district court in Columbia, challenges the administration’s September 19 proclamation, ‘Restriction on entry of certain nonimmigrant workers’, arguing that it violates the Immigration and Nationality Act by overriding Congress’ authority to regulate the H-1B visa programme.

The departments of Homeland Security and State, along with their secretaries, Kristi L Noem and Marco Rubio, respectively, have been named as defendants.

The exorbitant fee, up from the current

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