{"id":1025580,"date":"2026-08-01T10:56:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025580"},"modified":"2026-08-01T10:56:40","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:26:40","slug":"trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-will-it-crush-the-american-dream-for-indian-students-heres-what-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/01\/trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-will-it-crush-the-american-dream-for-indian-students-heres-what-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s $100,000 H-1B Visa Fee: Will it crush the American dream for Indian students? Here&#8217;s what experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the math for Indian students heading to the United States was fairly simple: take out an education loan, earn a STEM degree, secure a job through the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, and eventually obtain an H-1B visa to pay off the debt. A new policy, however, may soon break this equation.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the Donald Trump administration in the US is planning to attach a $100,000 fee to the OPT program itself. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the math for Indian students heading to the United States was fairly simple: take out an education loan, earn a STEM degree, secure a job through the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program, and eventually obtain an H-1B visa to pay off the debt. A new policy, however, may soon break this equation. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, the Donald Trump administration in the US is planning to attach a $100,000 fee to the OPT program itself.<\/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-1025580","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\/1025580","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=1025580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025581,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025580\/revisions\/1025581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}