{"id":963391,"date":"2025-09-22T09:31:29","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963391"},"modified":"2025-09-22T09:55:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:25:15","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-hike-may-force-startups-to-rethink-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/22\/h-1b-visa-fee-hike-may-force-startups-to-rethink-the-american-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee hike may force startups to rethink the \u2018American dream\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic startups are recalibrating their US expansion plans and hiring strategies after the US government announced a steep $100,000 one-time fee on H-1B visas. <\/p>\n<p>The move is set to impact AI (artificial intelligence) and SaaS (software-as-a-service) startups the most, which have traditionally relied on the US as their biggest market. While the announcement does not impact existing H-1B visa holders, companies looking to expand their teams must now choose between paying astronomical visa costs or abandon the plan altogether.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domestic startups are recalibrating their US expansion plans and hiring strategies after the US government announced a steep $100,000 one-time fee on H-1B visas. The move is set to impact AI (artificial intelligence) and SaaS (software-as-a-service) startups the most, which have traditionally relied on the US as their biggest market. While the announcement does not impact existing H-1B visa holders, companies looking to expand their teams must now choose between paying astronomical visa costs or abandon the plan altogether.<\/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-963391","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\/963391","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=963391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}