{"id":1013294,"date":"2026-06-09T12:24:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013294"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:45:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T07:15:40","slug":"indian-diaspora-groups-welcome-court-ruling-striking-down-100000-h-1b-visa-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/indian-diaspora-groups-welcome-court-ruling-striking-down-100000-h-1b-visa-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian diaspora groups welcome court ruling striking down $100,000 H-1B visa fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US-based Indian diaspora advocacy groups welcomed the Massachusetts federal court&#8217;s decision to strike down the USD 100,000 fee levied by the Trump administration on H-1B visas, contending that it was appropriate for preserving US&#8217; competitive edge in innovation and entrepreneurship.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We welcome the Massachusetts federal court&#8217;s decision striking down the USD 100,000 H-1B visa fee, which restores predictability and fairness to the employment-based immigration system,&#8221; Khanderao Kand, Chief of Policy and Strategy at the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS), told PTI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: US-based Indian diaspora advocacy groups welcomed the Massachusetts federal court&#8217;s decision to strike down the USD 100,000 fee levied by the Trump administration on H-1B visas, contending that it was appropriate for preserving US&#8217; competitive edge in innovation and entrepreneurship. &#8220;We welcome the Massachusetts federal court&#8217;s decision striking down the USD 100,000 H-1B visa fee, which restores predictability and fairness to the employment-based immigration system,&#8221; Khanderao Kand, Chief of Policy and Strategy at the Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies (FIIDS), told PTI.<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013294","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=1013294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013295,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013294\/revisions\/1013295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}