{"id":963131,"date":"2025-09-20T10:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963131"},"modified":"2025-09-20T11:08:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:38:54","slug":"will-crush-small-businesses-startups-trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-draws-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/will-crush-small-businesses-startups-trumps-100000-h-1b-visa-fee-draws-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Will crush small businesses, startups\u2019: Trump\u2019s $100,000 H-1B visa fee draws backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa fee: US President Donald Trump has signed a new proclamation introducing major changes to the H-1B visa program, including a $100,000 fee. Trump and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asserted that the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee would function as a recurring annual fee. In reality, the proclamation does not refer to such a yearly payment; instead, it specifies that the order is valid for 12 months and will be subject to review afterwards. The fee only applies to applications filed after September 21 and would be paid by the employers on behalf of the workers they employ from outside the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa fee: US President Donald Trump has signed a new proclamation introducing major changes to the H-1B visa program, including a $100,000 fee. Trump and US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick asserted that the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee would function as a recurring annual fee. In reality, the proclamation does not refer to such a yearly payment; instead, it specifies that the order is valid for 12 months and will be subject to review afterwards. The fee only applies to applications filed after September 21 and would be paid by the employers on behalf of the workers they employ [&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-963131","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\/963131","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=963131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}