{"id":1031128,"date":"2026-08-26T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031128"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:01:07","slug":"what-are-h-1b-visas-for-skilled-workers-and-what-changes-loom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/what-are-h-1b-visas-for-skilled-workers-and-what-changes-loom\/","title":{"rendered":"What are H-1B visas for skilled workers and what changes loom?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: U.S. employers seeking to hire skilled foreign workers can use the federal government&#8217;s H-1B visa program for a fee, allowing tech and other professionals from abroad to work in the United States for a few years. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pursued a broad immigration crackdown since taking office last year, has lambasted the program and wants to permanently raise the fee from between $2,000 and $5,000 to more than $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON: U.S. employers seeking to hire skilled foreign workers can use the federal government&#8217;s H-1B visa program for a fee, allowing tech and other professionals from abroad to work in the United States for a few years. U.S. President Donald Trump, who has pursued a broad immigration crackdown since taking office last year, has lambasted the program and wants to permanently raise the fee from between $2,000 and $5,000 to more than $100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031128","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031128"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031155,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031128\/revisions\/1031155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}