{"id":1001294,"date":"2026-04-04T11:49:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1001294"},"modified":"2026-04-04T11:49:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T06:19:22","slug":"department-of-labour-data-shows-apple-meta-google-and-amazon-have-slashed-h-1b-petitions-by-almost-half-here-are-the-numbers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/department-of-labour-data-shows-apple-meta-google-and-amazon-have-slashed-h-1b-petitions-by-almost-half-here-are-the-numbers\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Labour data shows Apple Meta, Google and Amazon have slashed H-1B petitions by almost half: Here are the numbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New data from the US Department of Labour shows that Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft have sharply criticised their H-1B visa petitions, reflecting both tighter immigration rules and widespread layoffs across the tech industry. According to a report by Business Insider, the filings covering the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (October- December 2025), reveal a steep decline as compared to the same period a year earlier. This fresh decline underscores how Big Tech\u2019s hiring slowdown is reshaping demand for skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p>Data of declining H-1B petitions from Apple, Meta, Amazonand Google<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New data from the US Department of Labour shows that Amazon, Meta, Google, Apple and Microsoft have sharply criticised their H-1B visa petitions, reflecting both tighter immigration rules and widespread layoffs across the tech industry. According to a report by Business Insider, the filings covering the first quarter of fiscal 2026 (October- December 2025), reveal a steep decline as compared to the same period a year earlier. This fresh decline underscores how Big Tech\u2019s hiring slowdown is reshaping demand for skilled foreign workers. Data of declining H-1B petitions from Apple, Meta, Amazonand Google<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001294","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}