{"id":963254,"date":"2025-09-20T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963254"},"modified":"2025-09-20T12:39:55","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T07:09:55","slug":"reckless-unfortunate-us-lawmakers-react-to-trumps-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visa-applications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/20\/reckless-unfortunate-us-lawmakers-react-to-trumps-100000-fee-on-h-1b-visa-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Reckless, unfortunate\u2019: US lawmakers react to Trump&#8217;s $ 100,000 fee on H-1B visa applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump announced on Friday a USD 100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, US lawmakers and community leaders reacted strongly, calling the move \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cunfortunate\u201d and warning it could have a \u201chuge negative\u201d impact on the IT industry.<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi called $100,000 H-1B visa fee a \u201creckless attempt to cut America off from high-skilled workers who have long strengthened the workforce, fuelled innovation, and helped build industries employing millions of Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Donald Trump announced on Friday a USD 100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications, US lawmakers and community leaders reacted strongly, calling the move \u201creckless\u201d and \u201cunfortunate\u201d and warning it could have a \u201chuge negative\u201d impact on the IT industry. Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi called $100,000 H-1B visa fee a \u201creckless attempt to cut America off from high-skilled workers who have long strengthened the workforce, fuelled innovation, and helped build industries employing millions of Americans.\u201d<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963254","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=963254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}