{"id":1026869,"date":"2026-08-06T11:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026869"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T06:28:21","slug":"h-1b-visa-renewals-could-cost-more-as-trump-administration-plans-new-fee-indians-likely-to-be-impacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/h-1b-visa-renewals-could-cost-more-as-trump-administration-plans-new-fee-indians-likely-to-be-impacted\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa renewals could cost more as Trump administration plans new fee; Indians likely to be impacted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is moving ahead with a proposal to extend an existing surcharge on certain H-1B and L-1 visa petitions to extension applications, a step that could increase costs for large US employers that depend heavily on foreign skilled workers, including thousands of Indian professionals.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal, included in the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s latest regulatory agenda, would expand the scope of the 9\/11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee to cover extension-of-stay petitions for qualifying H-1B and L-1 workers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is moving ahead with a proposal to extend an existing surcharge on certain H-1B and L-1 visa petitions to extension applications, a step that could increase costs for large US employers that depend heavily on foreign skilled workers, including thousands of Indian professionals. The proposal, included in the Department of Homeland Security&#8217;s latest regulatory agenda, would expand the scope of the 9\/11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee to cover extension-of-stay petitions for qualifying H-1B and L-1 workers.<\/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-1026869","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\/1026869","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=1026869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026870,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026869\/revisions\/1026870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}