{"id":963091,"date":"2025-09-20T10:37:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963091"},"modified":"2025-09-20T10:37:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:07:07","slug":"h-1b-visa-update-what-is-project-firewall-how-will-this-america-first-policy-impact-indians-with-us-work-permit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/h-1b-visa-update-what-is-project-firewall-how-will-this-america-first-policy-impact-indians-with-us-work-permit\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa update: What is Project Firewall? How will this \u2018America-first\u2019 policy impact Indians with US work permit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor on Friday announced the launch of Project Firewall, an H-1B enforcement initiative that aims to protect the rights, wages, and jobs of skilled American workers. The announcement came the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a $100,000 fee for H-1B applications.<\/p>\n<p>What is Project Firewall?<br \/>\nUnder Project Firewall, employers must prioritise qualified Americans when hiring and will be held accountable if they abuse H-1B visa process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor on Friday announced the launch of Project Firewall, an H-1B enforcement initiative that aims to protect the rights, wages, and jobs of skilled American workers. The announcement came the same day President Donald Trump signed an executive order imposing a $100,000 fee for H-1B applications. What is Project Firewall? Under Project Firewall, employers must prioritise qualified Americans when hiring and will be held accountable if they abuse H-1B visa process.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963091","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=963091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}