Nineteen US states including California, New York and Illinois are going to court to challenge Donald Trump’s $100,000 H-1B visa fee hike.

In a post on X, California’s attorney general Rob Bonta wrote: “ Trump’s unlawful new $100,000 fee hike could cause staffing shortages for teachers, physicians, researchers, nurses and other vital workers, endangering CA’s ability to provide critical services.”

A separate press release from his office said the new fee could “create a costly barrier for employers, especially public sector and government employers, trying to fill these positions.”

It said that the hike “is a clear violation of the law because it imposes a massive fee outside of the bounds of what is authorized by Congress and contrary to Congress’s intent in establishing the H-1B p

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