{"id":1002282,"date":"2026-04-10T11:15:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002282"},"modified":"2026-04-10T11:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T05:45:25","slug":"will-congress-kill-the-h-1b-visa-program-heres-every-bill-that-could-change-it-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/will-congress-kill-the-h-1b-visa-program-heres-every-bill-that-could-change-it-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Congress \u2018kill\u2019 the H-1B visa program? Here\u2019s every bill that could change it forever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B visa program is being significantly modified, potentially affecting the hiring practices of American companies. <\/p>\n<p>Among the changes already in place, a $100,000 petition fee has been imposed, and a wage-based selection process has been introduced. These new rules aim to ensure that US firms hire highly skilled foreign workers and reduce the intake of low-paid, low-skilled labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B visa program is being significantly modified, potentially affecting the hiring practices of American companies. Among the changes already in place, a $100,000 petition fee has been imposed, and a wage-based selection process has been introduced. These new rules aim to ensure that US firms hire highly skilled foreign workers and reduce the intake of low-paid, low-skilled labor.<\/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-1002282","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\/1002282","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=1002282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}