{"id":963190,"date":"2025-09-20T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963190"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:34:42","slug":"trump-signs-order-raising-h1-b-visa-fee-to-100000-impacting-indian-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/trump-signs-order-raising-h1-b-visa-fee-to-100000-impacting-indian-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump signs order raising H1-B visa fee to $100,000, impacting Indian professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that could adversely impact Indian professionals on visas in the US, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will raise the fee for H1-B visas to a staggering USD 100,000 annually, the latest in the administration\u2019s efforts to crack down on immigration. <\/p>\n<p>White House staff secretary Will Scharf said the H1B non-immigrant visa programme is one of the \u201cmost abused visa\u201d systems in the country\u2019s current immigration system, and it is supposed to allow highly skilled labourers, who work in fields that Americans don&#8217;t work in, to come into the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move that could adversely impact Indian professionals on visas in the US, President Donald Trump on Friday signed a proclamation that will raise the fee for H1-B visas to a staggering USD 100,000 annually, the latest in the administration\u2019s efforts to crack down on immigration. White House staff secretary Will Scharf said the H1B non-immigrant visa programme is one of the \u201cmost abused visa\u201d systems in the country\u2019s current immigration system, and it is supposed to allow highly skilled labourers, who work in fields that Americans don&#8217;t work in, to come into the United States.<\/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":[84,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963190","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=963190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}