{"id":1031584,"date":"2026-08-27T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031584"},"modified":"2026-08-27T11:38:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:08:05","slug":"for-indians-in-the-us-two-new-100000-walls-may-be-coming-up-what-h-1b-visa-and-opt-fees-could-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/27\/for-indians-in-the-us-two-new-100000-walls-may-be-coming-up-what-h-1b-visa-and-opt-fees-could-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"For Indians in the US, two new $100,000 walls may be coming up: What H-1B visa and OPT fees could mean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Monday published a proposed regulation that would charge American employers $103,265 for each new H-1B petition subject to the annual visa cap, reviving, in a different form, a fee that a US court had struck down in June.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) placed the notice in the Federal Register on August 24, opening a 30-day public comment window. The rule could be finalised by the end of the year, Reuters reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration on Monday published a proposed regulation that would charge American employers $103,265 for each new H-1B petition subject to the annual visa cap, reviving, in a different form, a fee that a US court had struck down in June. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) placed the notice in the Federal Register on August 24, opening a 30-day public comment window. The rule could be finalised by the end of the year, Reuters reported.<\/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-1031584","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\/1031584","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=1031584"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1031586,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031584\/revisions\/1031586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}