Oregon has joined a multistate lawsuit challenging a Trump administration policy that would require employers to pay $100,000 for each new H‑1B visa , a fee that state officials say could burden health care, higher education and research institutions that rely on specialized workers.

“Oregon’s colleges, universities and research institutions rely on skilled international workers to keep labs running, courses on track and innovation moving forward,” Oregon Attorney General Dan Rayfield said in a statement.

The complaint, filed Friday in federal court in Massachusetts, is at least the third case targeting the fee, which was announced in September and dramatically raised the cost of obtaining H‑1B visas.

Rayfield’s office said employers typically paid between $960 and $7,600 in combined

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