{"id":963432,"date":"2025-09-22T09:38:02","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T04:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963432"},"modified":"2025-09-22T11:02:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:32:31","slug":"h-1b-visa-hike-another-dampener-for-it-stocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/22\/h-1b-visa-hike-another-dampener-for-it-stocks\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa hike: Another dampener for IT stocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a 20-fold rise in the H-1B visa fee by the US government on Friday is expected to hit information technology (IT) stocks further in the near term at a time when they have already been under pressure due to lower-than-expected earnings growth and tariff threat.  After the announcement, American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of Indian IT companies fell sharply on Friday, with Infosys falling 3.4% and Wipro down 2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The announcement of a 20-fold rise in the H-1B visa fee by the US government on Friday is expected to hit information technology (IT) stocks further in the near term at a time when they have already been under pressure due to lower-than-expected earnings growth and tariff threat. After the announcement, American Depository Receipts (ADRs) of Indian IT companies fell sharply on Friday, with Infosys falling 3.4% and Wipro down 2%.<\/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-963432","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\/963432","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=963432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}