{"id":907944,"date":"2025-02-21T08:55:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=907944"},"modified":"2025-02-21T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T03:44:20","slug":"h-1b-visa-program-overhaul-required-to-increase-opportunities-for-american-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/21\/h-1b-visa-program-overhaul-required-to-increase-opportunities-for-american-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa program overhaul required to increase opportunities for American workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B visa program has come under fire because many policy experts believe it is being abused to hire foreign workers at the expense of American workers. As estimated, more than 7,00,000 H-1B holders are within the U.S. with an additional 5,00,000 dependents contributing over $85 billion annually to the U.S. economy. <\/p>\n<p>The H-1B visa category is a temporary visa program that allows American companies to employ highly educated foreign professionals to work in \u2018specialty occupations\u2019 requiring at least a bachelor\u2019s degree or the equivalent. Jobs in subjects like mathematics, engineering, technology, and medical sciences qualify for H-1B visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B visa program has come under fire because many policy experts believe it is being abused to hire foreign workers at the expense of American workers. As estimated, more than 7,00,000 H-1B holders are within the U.S. with an additional 5,00,000 dependents contributing over $85 billion annually to the U.S. economy. The H-1B visa category is a temporary visa program that allows American companies to employ highly educated foreign professionals to work in \u2018specialty occupations\u2019 requiring at least a bachelor\u2019s degree or the equivalent. Jobs in subjects like mathematics, engineering, technology, and medical sciences qualify for H-1B visas.<\/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-907944","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\/907944","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=907944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}