{"id":1005164,"date":"2026-04-27T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1005164"},"modified":"2026-04-27T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T05:34:44","slug":"trump-allies-push-bills-to-pause-and-scrap-h-1b-visas-what-does-it-mean-for-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/27\/trump-allies-push-bills-to-pause-and-scrap-h-1b-visas-what-does-it-mean-for-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump allies push bills to pause and scrap H-1B visas: What does it mean for Indians?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Republican lawmakers has introduced a bill for a three-year pause to the H1-B visa programme, arguing that companies have long misused it to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labour.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Eli Crane from Arizona introduced the End H-1B Visa Abuse Act of 2026, which was co-sponsored by seven other Republican lawmakers. The bill proposes reforms to the H-1B programme that include reducing the annual cap from 65,000 to 25,000 with a minimum wage of USD 2,00,000 per year and disallowing H-1B visa holders from bringing dependents to the US. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of Republican lawmakers has introduced a bill for a three-year pause to the H1-B visa programme, arguing that companies have long misused it to replace American workers with cheaper foreign labour. Congressman Eli Crane from Arizona introduced the End H-1B Visa Abuse Act of 2026, which was co-sponsored by seven other Republican lawmakers. The bill proposes reforms to the H-1B programme that include reducing the annual cap from 65,000 to 25,000 with a minimum wage of USD 2,00,000 per year and disallowing H-1B visa holders from bringing dependents to the US.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1005164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005164","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=1005164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1005165,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005164\/revisions\/1005165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}