India, June 9 -- Thousands of skilled immigrants in the United States will breathe a sigh of relief after a federal court in Massachusetts's Boston on Monday struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 H-1B visa fees and called it unlawful.

The order comes after another federal court in Washington DC, in December 2025, upheld the fee hike in a case brought by the US Chamber of Commerce.

At least three suits challenging the hike, including the one with the Boston court, had been filed after the Trump administration raised the one-time fees.

According to the US department of labor, the H-1B program applies to employers seeking to "hire nonimmigrant aliens as workers in specialty occupations or as fashion models of distinguished merit...