{"id":1041924,"date":"2026-10-08T11:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1041924"},"modified":"2026-10-08T11:31:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T06:01:58","slug":"h-1b-crackdown-intensifies-new-us-bill-proposes-up-to-250000-fines-for-employers-for-visa-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/08\/h-1b-crackdown-intensifies-new-us-bill-proposes-up-to-250000-fines-for-employers-for-visa-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B crackdown intensifies: New US bill proposes up to $250,000 fines for employers for visa violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new Republican bill in the US House would sharply increase penalties for employers found to have committed serious H-1B visa violations, raising the maximum fine from $35,000 to $250,000 as the Trump administration and lawmakers intensify scrutiny of the foreign-worker program.<\/p>\n<p>The H-1B Visa Fraud Crackdown Act, introduced by Texas Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne on October 1, would also lengthen bans on companies that violate immigration rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new Republican bill in the US House would sharply increase penalties for employers found to have committed serious H-1B visa violations, raising the maximum fine from $35,000 to $250,000 as the Trump administration and lawmakers intensify scrutiny of the foreign-worker program. The H-1B Visa Fraud Crackdown Act, introduced by Texas Republican Rep. Beth Van Duyne on October 1, would also lengthen bans on companies that violate immigration rules.<\/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-1041924","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\/1041924","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=1041924"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1041925,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041924\/revisions\/1041925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}