{"id":1001231,"date":"2026-04-04T09:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T04:14:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001231"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:17:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T05:47:41","slug":"h-1b-visa-2026-amazon-google-meta-slash-filings-as-hiring-slows-amid-trump-crackdown-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/h-1b-visa-2026-amazon-google-meta-slash-filings-as-hiring-slows-amid-trump-crackdown-says-report\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B Visa 2026: Amazon, Google, Meta slash filings as hiring slows amid Trump crackdown, says Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B debate in the US has intensified. After a year where tech workers felt the heat from the Trump administration\u2019s $100,000 fee and tighter visa rules, major companies are now filing far fewer H-1B applications. Layoffs and shrinking teams at giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are adding to the slowdown, cutting the demand for foreign talent even further. <\/p>\n<p>Federal data shows a clear drop in visa filings as layoffs mount and new rules take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B debate in the US has intensified. After a year where tech workers felt the heat from the Trump administration\u2019s $100,000 fee and tighter visa rules, major companies are now filing far fewer H-1B applications. Layoffs and shrinking teams at giants like Amazon, Google, Meta, and Microsoft are adding to the slowdown, cutting the demand for foreign talent even further. Federal data shows a clear drop in visa filings as layoffs mount and new rules take effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}