{"id":963658,"date":"2025-09-23T11:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963658"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:28:08","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-hike-100k-cost-pushes-professionals-to-explore-o-1-visa-what-is-it-and-heres-how-to-apply","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/h-1b-visa-fee-hike-100k-cost-pushes-professionals-to-explore-o-1-visa-what-is-it-and-heres-how-to-apply\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee hike: $100K cost pushes professionals to explore O-1 visa; What is it and here\u2019s how to apply"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order raising the H-1B visa application fee from $10,000 to $1,00,000 sent shockwaves in the tech industry. Due to the announcement last week many tech giants called back their professionals with H-1B visa back to the US. As the scrutiny around the traditional H-1B visa pathway making the process unpredictable, the skilled professionals are now planing to turn towards O-1 visa a lesser known route. The O-1 visa also known as the \u2018Einstein visa\u2019 is a specialised non-immigrant visa for individuals with \u2018extraordinary ability\u2019 in fields like STEM, arts, business, and sports.<\/p>\n<p>What is the O-1 Visa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump\u2019s executive order raising the H-1B visa application fee from $10,000 to $1,00,000 sent shockwaves in the tech industry. Due to the announcement last week many tech giants called back their professionals with H-1B visa back to the US. As the scrutiny around the traditional H-1B visa pathway making the process unpredictable, the skilled professionals are now planing to turn towards O-1 visa a lesser known route. The O-1 visa also known as the \u2018Einstein visa\u2019 is a specialised non-immigrant visa for individuals with \u2018extraordinary ability\u2019 in fields like STEM, arts, business, and sports. What is the [&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-963658","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\/963658","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=963658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}