{"id":963338,"date":"2025-09-22T08:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963338"},"modified":"2025-09-22T08:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T03:09:50","slug":"h1b-visa-fee-hike-may-slow-indias-it-exports-growth-to-below-4-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/22\/h1b-visa-fee-hike-may-slow-indias-it-exports-growth-to-below-4-report\/","title":{"rendered":"H1B visa fee hike may slow India&#8217;s IT exports growth to below 4%: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Growth in India&#8217;s IT services exports could slow to below 4 per cent due to fresh risks from the sharp hike in H-1B visa fees, according to a report by Emkay. <\/p>\n<p>The report noted that it had earlier estimated 5 per cent growth in FY26 and a 7 per cent CAGR over the next five years. <\/p>\n<p>It stated, &#8220;Indian IT\/software gross\/net exports stood USD 181bn\/160bn in FY25 and we had assumed 5 per cent growth in net IT services exports for FY26E, with a 7 per cent CAGR growth for next 5 yrs. This could reduce to sub-4 per cent depending on sustained H1B visa-led risks and GCC evolution&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Growth in India&#8217;s IT services exports could slow to below 4 per cent due to fresh risks from the sharp hike in H-1B visa fees, according to a report by Emkay. The report noted that it had earlier estimated 5 per cent growth in FY26 and a 7 per cent CAGR over the next five years. It stated, &#8220;Indian IT\/software gross\/net exports stood USD 181bn\/160bn in FY25 and we had assumed 5 per cent growth in net IT services exports for FY26E, with a 7 per cent CAGR growth for next 5 yrs. This could reduce to sub-4 per cent [&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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963338","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=963338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}