{"id":963302,"date":"2025-09-22T08:11:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963302"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:18:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T02:48:14","slug":"indian-techies-get-a-star-spangled-cold-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/22\/indian-techies-get-a-star-spangled-cold-shoulder\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian techies get a star-spangled cold shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A messy mix of economic woes, unemployment and geopolitics resulted in this moment, where H-1B, magic carpet for Indian geeks&#8217; American dream, is being re-coded.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump&#8217;s latest executive order is aimed squarely to impact one country &#8211; India.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, over the years, it is American cos that have become the biggest users of H-1B visas to send Indian talent to the US. Numbers suggest Trump&#8217;s latest move will hurt the likes of Microsoft and Amazon more than TCS and Infosys. That said, this closes the most accessible door for Indian techies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A messy mix of economic woes, unemployment and geopolitics resulted in this moment, where H-1B, magic carpet for Indian geeks&#8217; American dream, is being re-coded. Donald Trump&#8217;s latest executive order is aimed squarely to impact one country &#8211; India. Oddly enough, over the years, it is American cos that have become the biggest users of H-1B visas to send Indian talent to the US. Numbers suggest Trump&#8217;s latest move will hurt the likes of Microsoft and Amazon more than TCS and Infosys. That said, this closes the most accessible door for Indian techies.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963302","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=963302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}