US President Donald Trump faces the prospect of a legal challenge to his plan to charge $100,000 annual fee for working visas. Photograph: Aaron Schwartz/CNP/Bloomberg
US employers are facing a $14 billion (€11.9 billion) annual bill for hiring skilled foreign workers after Donald Trump slapped a $100,000 fee on the cost of securing a visa for new employees to enter the country.
Late on Friday the US president signed a proclamation introducing a $100,000 application fee for the H-1B foreign worker visa.
Following chaos at airports on Saturday as workers hurried to return to the US, the White House clarified that it would apply only to new applicants starting from the next visa lottery in February
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