{"id":963068,"date":"2025-09-20T10:29:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963068"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:35:25","slug":"h-1b-100000-fee-explained-not-annual-not-for-current-techies-in-us-8-myths-busted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/h-1b-100000-fee-explained-not-annual-not-for-current-techies-in-us-8-myths-busted\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B $100,000 fee explained: Not annual, not for current techies in US \u2013 8 myths busted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s new executive order has set off alarm bells across the tech industry and Indian H-1B community by imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications. But much of the panic comes from confusion. After reading the full order, here\u2019s what the it actually says and what it doesn\u2019t. <\/p>\n<p>Myth 1: Every H-1B worker must now pay $100,000 <\/p>\n<p>Reality: The fee applies only to petitions for workers currently outside the United States. If an H-1B holder is already living and working in the U.S. on an H-1B, this new fee does not directly apply to you. It can be applied for renewals and fresh applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump\u2019s new executive order has set off alarm bells across the tech industry and Indian H-1B community by imposing a $100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications. But much of the panic comes from confusion. After reading the full order, here\u2019s what the it actually says and what it doesn\u2019t. Myth 1: Every H-1B worker must now pay $100,000 Reality: The fee applies only to petitions for workers currently outside the United States. If an H-1B holder is already living and working in the U.S. on an H-1B, this new fee does not directly apply to you. It can [&hellip;]<\/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-963068","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\/963068","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=963068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}