{"id":963701,"date":"2025-09-23T11:19:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:49:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963701"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:39:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:09:10","slug":"mid-tier-it-firms-may-face-bigger-h-1b-pinch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/mid-tier-it-firms-may-face-bigger-h-1b-pinch\/","title":{"rendered":"Mid-tier IT firms may face bigger H-1B pinch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian firms are bracing for a shake-up after the US Administration imposed a one-time $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications. According to analysts, the impact will be uneven with mid-tier and smaller firms that rely heavily on H-1B hires for onsite delivery are likely to feel the sharpest pinch, while larger players with localised US teams and extensive offshore operations will be relatively insulated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian firms are bracing for a shake-up after the US Administration imposed a one-time $100,000 fee on new H-1B visa applications. According to analysts, the impact will be uneven with mid-tier and smaller firms that rely heavily on H-1B hires for onsite delivery are likely to feel the sharpest pinch, while larger players with localised US teams and extensive offshore operations will be relatively insulated.<\/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-963701","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\/963701","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=963701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963701\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}