A federal judge in San Francisco on Tuesday set aside two Trump administration policies that required employers to pay foreign workers on H-1B visas significantly higher wages and narrowed eligibility for the program valued by U.S. tech firms and other employers.
The departments of Labor and Homeland Security each issued visa rules in early October as part of a long-awaited tightening of the H-1B visa program, which the Trump administration argues undercuts American workers by allowing employers to hire foreign counterparts…
