A coalition of health care providers, religious groups, university professors and others filed a federal lawsuit on Friday, challenging the new USD 100,000 fee required for H-1B visa applications.

The lawsuit, filed in a federal court in San Francisco, is the first to challenge a proclamation that Donald Trump issued two weeks ago, announcing the fee as he moves to further restrict immigration to the United States.

The plaintiffs argue that Trump has no authority to alter a comprehensive statutory scheme governing the visa program and cannot, under the US Constitution, unilaterally impose fee, taxes or other mechanisms to generate revenue for the United States, saying that power is reserved for Congress.

The coalition also argued that the new fee imposed on the visa has “thrown employer

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