{"id":1031981,"date":"2026-08-29T08:38:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1031981"},"modified":"2026-08-29T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T03:18:00","slug":"us-h-1b-fee-proposal-may-slow-indian-it-hiring-push-work-offshore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/29\/us-h-1b-fee-proposal-may-slow-indian-it-hiring-push-work-offshore\/","title":{"rendered":"US H-1B fee proposal may slow Indian IT hiring, push work offshore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed $103,265 H-1B fee in the US could slow Indian IT hiring, while pushing American firms towards offshoring and intensifying global competition for Indian tech talent. <\/p>\n<p>The proposed fee, up from the current $2,000-10,000 cost per petition, is expected to affect on-site hiring by Indian IT firms and could encourage US enterprises to shift more work offshore. The proposal would apply to all new H-1B petitions and is open for public comment for 30 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed $103,265 H-1B fee in the US could slow Indian IT hiring, while pushing American firms towards offshoring and intensifying global competition for Indian tech talent. The proposed fee, up from the current $2,000-10,000 cost per petition, is expected to affect on-site hiring by Indian IT firms and could encourage US enterprises to shift more work offshore. The proposal would apply to all new H-1B petitions and is open for public comment for 30 days.<\/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":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031981","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=1031981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032005,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031981\/revisions\/1032005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}