{"id":1028326,"date":"2026-08-12T11:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028326"},"modified":"2026-08-12T11:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T05:30:21","slug":"starting-september-9-these-companies-will-have-to-pay-more-for-h-1b-and-l-1-visas-under-a-new-rule-that-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/12\/starting-september-9-these-companies-will-have-to-pay-more-for-h-1b-and-l-1-visas-under-a-new-rule-that-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Starting September 9, these companies will have to pay more for H-1B and L-1 visas under a new rule that says &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has expanded the scope of 9-11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee for certain H-1B and L-1 nonimmigrant visas. Under the new rule, H-1B and L1 visa holders seeking extension will have to pay USD 4,000 and USD 4,500 fees, respectively. The fee currently applies to petitions seeking an initial grant of status. Come September 9, the fees will now be applicable to visa holders seeking extension of status. \u201cThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending the regulations concerning the 9-11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee for certain H-1B and L-1 Visas (9-11 Biometric Fee),\u201d a Federal Register document stated, adding that the new rule seeks to \u201ccorrect DHS&#8217;s interpretation of statutory language to require that covered employers submit the 9-11 Biometric Fee for all extension of status petitions, regardless of whether the related fraud prevention and detection fee applies, which includes extension of status petitions that do not involve a change of employer\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has expanded the scope of 9-11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee for certain H-1B and L-1 nonimmigrant visas. Under the new rule, H-1B and L1 visa holders seeking extension will have to pay USD 4,000 and USD 4,500 fees, respectively. The fee currently applies to petitions seeking an initial grant of status. Come September 9, the fees will now be applicable to visa holders seeking extension of status. \u201cThe Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is amending the regulations concerning the 9-11 Response and Biometric Entry-Exit Fee for certain H-1B and L-1 Visas (9-11 Biometric Fee),\u201d a Federal [&hellip;]<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1028326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028326","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=1028326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028328,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028326\/revisions\/1028328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}