{"id":963754,"date":"2025-09-23T11:45:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963754"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:21:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T07:51:50","slug":"2-8-lakh-indian-jobs-on-the-line-as-trump-slaps-100k-h-1b-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/2-8-lakh-indian-jobs-on-the-line-as-trump-slaps-100k-h-1b-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"2.8 lakh Indian jobs on the line as Trump slaps $100k H-1B fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI\/NEW DELHI: The Trump administration on Saturday imposed a fee of $100,000 per year on each H-1B visa holder, dealing a body blow to the 2,83,397 (71%) skilled technology workers from India, as per 2024 data. At 71%, India was the largest beneficiary of the H-1B visa program last year, while China was a distant second at 12%. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need great workers, and this pretty much ensures that that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Trump said at the Oval Office as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stood by.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHENNAI\/NEW DELHI: The Trump administration on Saturday imposed a fee of $100,000 per year on each H-1B visa holder, dealing a body blow to the 2,83,397 (71%) skilled technology workers from India, as per 2024 data. At 71%, India was the largest beneficiary of the H-1B visa program last year, while China was a distant second at 12%. \u201cWe need great workers, and this pretty much ensures that that\u2019s what\u2019s going to happen,\u201d Trump said at the Oval Office as Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick stood by.<\/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-963754","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\/963754","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=963754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}