{"id":963488,"date":"2025-09-23T10:08:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963488"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:17:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T04:47:36","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-hike-unlikely-to-dent-it-companies-margins-significantly-equirus-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/h-1b-visa-fee-hike-unlikely-to-dent-it-companies-margins-significantly-equirus-2\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee hike unlikely to dent IT companies&#8217; margins significantly: Equirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government&#8217;s order, which restricts entry for H-1B visa petitioners unless they pay a one-time fee of $100,000, is unlikely to significantly impact large- and mid-cap IT services firms in India, a report said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The restrictions can be addressed through increased local hiring, subcontracting, or offshoring, a report from fund management firm Equirus said.<\/p>\n<p>The restriction, unless extended, will remain effective for 12 months from September 21, 2025, unless renewed and applies solely to new visa applicants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government&#8217;s order, which restricts entry for H-1B visa petitioners unless they pay a one-time fee of $100,000, is unlikely to significantly impact large- and mid-cap IT services firms in India, a report said on Monday. The restrictions can be addressed through increased local hiring, subcontracting, or offshoring, a report from fund management firm Equirus said. The restriction, unless extended, will remain effective for 12 months from September 21, 2025, unless renewed and applies solely to new visa applicants.<\/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-963488","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\/963488","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=963488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}