{"id":963715,"date":"2025-09-23T11:20:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963715"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:44:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:14:25","slug":"h-1b-visa-fee-could-cost-us-firms-14-billion-annually-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/h-1b-visa-fee-could-cost-us-firms-14-billion-annually-report\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa fee could cost US firms $14 billion annually: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US companies may have to pay $14 billion a year to hire skilled foreign workers after US President Donald Trump introduced a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, which allow foreign employees to work in the country, a Financial Times report said. <\/p>\n<p>The new fee was announced late Friday, led to a lot of confusion at airports on Saturday as people were rushing back to return to the US. The White House later came out with a clarification that said the $100,000 charge will only apply to new applicants starting with the next visa lottery in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US companies may have to pay $14 billion a year to hire skilled foreign workers after US President Donald Trump introduced a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, which allow foreign employees to work in the country, a Financial Times report said. The new fee was announced late Friday, led to a lot of confusion at airports on Saturday as people were rushing back to return to the US. The White House later came out with a clarification that said the $100,000 charge will only apply to new applicants starting with the next visa lottery in February.<\/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-963715","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\/963715","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=963715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}