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A US district court has reportedly denied a request for a temporary restraining order that was meant to postpone the immigration fee hikes coming into effect starting April 1..
The plaintiffs had demanded that the imposition of the revised fees be deferred..
ITServe Alliance, the American Immigrant Investor Alliance (AIIA), and a Canadian EB-5 investor filed the lawsuit, which particularly questioned the increased hikes in EB-5 visa fees, as well as the arbitrary asylum fee that is required to be paid by employers hiring H-1B workers..
According to AIIA, Despite our attorneys best efforts, the court disagreed with our argument that the increased fees would cause irreparable harm between April 1st and post-trial..
Matthew T. Galati, one of the attorneys representing the lawsuit, told Times Of India, While we were disappointed that the judge did not give our plaintiffs and millions of affected immigrants what we asked for, we do wish to note that the court specifically left open -- for deciding later in this suit -- our most important arguments that the Fee Rule is unlawful..
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