{"id":963660,"date":"2025-09-23T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963660"},"modified":"2025-09-23T11:58:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:28:58","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-hike-elon-musk-satya-nadella-and-other-tech-leaders-who-once-benefited-from-h-1b-visa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/h-1b-visa-fee-hike-elon-musk-satya-nadella-and-other-tech-leaders-who-once-benefited-from-h-1b-visa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee hike: Elon Musk, Satya Nadella and other tech leaders who once benefited from H-1B visa program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump last week announced his decision to increase the fees for H-1B visa. As per the revised regulation the fees for H-1B visa application has been increased from $10,000 to $1,00,000. This latest development created a situation of panic and chaos in the tech industry as many tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and others asked their professionals with H-1B visa to return to US the earliest. With this latest development, the debate around H-1B program has also reignited. Introduced in 1990, the H-1B visa program has helped in shaping the career to lot of influential tech leaders including, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and many others.<\/p>\n<p>The H-1B as a launchpad for global leaders<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump last week announced his decision to increase the fees for H-1B visa. As per the revised regulation the fees for H-1B visa application has been increased from $10,000 to $1,00,000. This latest development created a situation of panic and chaos in the tech industry as many tech giants such as Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and others asked their professionals with H-1B visa to return to US the earliest. With this latest development, the debate around H-1B program has also reignited. Introduced in 1990, the H-1B visa program has helped in shaping the career to lot of [&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-963660","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\/963660","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=963660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}