{"id":1044611,"date":"2026-10-19T11:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1044611"},"modified":"2026-10-19T11:45:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T06:15:20","slug":"indian-it-giants-h-1b-visa-registrations-fall-amid-trumps-crackdown-infosys-cognizant-tcs-report-fewer-entries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/19\/indian-it-giants-h-1b-visa-registrations-fall-amid-trumps-crackdown-infosys-cognizant-tcs-report-fewer-entries\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian IT giants&#8217; H-1B visa registrations fall amid Trump&#8217;s crackdown; Infosys, Cognizant, TCS report fewer entries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration tightens immigration policies, including a $100,000 fee for certain new H-1B applications and a wage-weighted selection system introduced for fiscal year 2027, H-1B registrations by major IT companies such as Cognizant, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have dropped in the FY2027 lottery.<\/p>\n<p>According to data in a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report published on 14 October, Cognizant submitted 100% fewer registrations than in the previous year, while Infosys&#8217; registrations declined by 91% and TCS&#8217;s plunged by 95%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As US President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration tightens immigration policies, including a $100,000 fee for certain new H-1B applications and a wage-weighted selection system introduced for fiscal year 2027, H-1B registrations by major IT companies such as Cognizant, Infosys and Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) have dropped in the FY2027 lottery. According to data in a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report published on 14 October, Cognizant submitted 100% fewer registrations than in the previous year, while Infosys&#8217; registrations declined by 91% and TCS&#8217;s plunged by 95%.<\/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":[55,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1044611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044611","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=1044611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044612,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1044611\/revisions\/1044612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1044611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1044611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1044611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}