{"id":963654,"date":"2025-09-23T11:56:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963654"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:56:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:26:57","slug":"white-house-on-h-1b-visa-price-hike-us-companies-replaced-over-40000-american-tech-workers-with-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/white-house-on-h-1b-visa-price-hike-us-companies-replaced-over-40000-american-tech-workers-with-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"White House on H-1B visa price hike: US companies replaced over 40,000 American tech workers with foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump recently announced the new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications. Soon after the announcement, the White House issued a fact sheet to defend the move, citing &#8220;widespread program abuse&#8221; and American job losses. The fee, which applies to all new petitions filed from outside the US, is intended to discourage companies from replacing American workers with lower-paid foreign labour. The White House claimed that several US companies have laid off American tech workers while hiring foreign employees through the visa program. The fact sheet stated that one company received 5,189 H-1B visa approvals while laying off 16,000 U.S. workers, and another received 1,698 approvals while cutting 2,400 jobs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump recently announced the new $100,000 fee for H-1B visa applications. Soon after the announcement, the White House issued a fact sheet to defend the move, citing &#8220;widespread program abuse&#8221; and American job losses. The fee, which applies to all new petitions filed from outside the US, is intended to discourage companies from replacing American workers with lower-paid foreign labour. The White House claimed that several US companies have laid off American tech workers while hiring foreign employees through the visa program. The fact sheet stated that one company received 5,189 H-1B visa approvals while laying off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963654","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}