{"id":1031194,"date":"2026-08-26T08:20:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T02:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031194"},"modified":"2026-08-26T09:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T03:56:56","slug":"trumps-h-1b-fee-plan-threatens-indian-its-onsite-model","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/26\/trumps-h-1b-fee-plan-threatens-indian-its-onsite-model\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s H-1B fee plan threatens Indian IT\u2019s onsite model"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Homeland Security\u2019s proposal to impose an additional $103,265 fee on new cap-subject H-1B petitions could force Indian IT services companies to rethink their traditional model of moving employees trained in India to the US for two-three year assignments, while making them more selective about the talent they deploy onsite. <\/p>\n<p>The proposal marks a fresh attempt by the Trump administration to impose the steep charge after a federal court struck down the earlier $100,000 fee introduced through a Presidential proclamation. Unlike the earlier measure, the new fee is being proposed by the Department of Homeland Security through formal rule-making under its fee-setting authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Homeland Security\u2019s proposal to impose an additional $103,265 fee on new cap-subject H-1B petitions could force Indian IT services companies to rethink their traditional model of moving employees trained in India to the US for two-three year assignments, while making them more selective about the talent they deploy onsite. The proposal marks a fresh attempt by the Trump administration to impose the steep charge after a federal court struck down the earlier $100,000 fee introduced through a Presidential proclamation. Unlike the earlier measure, the new fee is being proposed by the Department of Homeland Security through [&hellip;]<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031194","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=1031194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031220,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031194\/revisions\/1031220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}