{"id":963739,"date":"2025-09-23T11:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963739"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:19:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:49:33","slug":"return-to-us-immediately-or-risk-getting-stranded-immigration-attorneys-companies-tell-h-1b-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/return-to-us-immediately-or-risk-getting-stranded-immigration-attorneys-companies-tell-h-1b-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Return to US immediately or risk getting stranded: Immigration attorneys, companies tell H-1B workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/WASHINGTON: Immigration attorneys and companies are cautioning H-1B visa holders against travelling outside the US amid President Donald Trump&#8217;s new plan to impose a USD 100,000 fee on the work visas, with many asking employees to return immediately to America or risk getting stranded.<\/p>\n<p>In a significant development that will have an impact on Indian professionals working on H-1B visas in the US, Trump signed a proclamation on Friday that restricts the entry into the United States of nonimmigrants working in a &#8220;speciality occupation&#8221; unless their H-1B petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of USD 100,000.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK\/WASHINGTON: Immigration attorneys and companies are cautioning H-1B visa holders against travelling outside the US amid President Donald Trump&#8217;s new plan to impose a USD 100,000 fee on the work visas, with many asking employees to return immediately to America or risk getting stranded. In a significant development that will have an impact on Indian professionals working on H-1B visas in the US, Trump signed a proclamation on Friday that restricts the entry into the United States of nonimmigrants working in a &#8220;speciality occupation&#8221; unless their H-1B petitions are accompanied or supplemented by a payment of USD 100,000.<\/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":[77,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963739","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=963739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}