{"id":963777,"date":"2025-09-23T11:52:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963777"},"modified":"2025-09-23T13:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T08:01:00","slug":"increased-h-1b-visa-fee-to-have-marginal-impact-on-it-sector-nasscom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/increased-h-1b-visa-fee-to-have-marginal-impact-on-it-sector-nasscom\/","title":{"rendered":"Increased H-1B visa fee to have marginal impact on IT sector: Nasscom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IT industry body Nasscom has said that the revised H-1B visa fee will have a marginal impact on the sector given the fact that Indian and India-centric companies have been steadily reducing their dependence on H-1B visas.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued on Monday, the industry body said that the number of H-1B visas issued to leading companies in this category decreased from 14,792 in 2015 to 10,162 in 2024. Nasscom highlights that for the top 10 Indian and India-centric firms, H-1B workers constitute less than 1 percent of their total employee base, leading the organization to anticipate only a marginal impact on the sector<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: IT industry body Nasscom has said that the revised H-1B visa fee will have a marginal impact on the sector given the fact that Indian and India-centric companies have been steadily reducing their dependence on H-1B visas. In a statement issued on Monday, the industry body said that the number of H-1B visas issued to leading companies in this category decreased from 14,792 in 2015 to 10,162 in 2024. Nasscom highlights that for the top 10 Indian and India-centric firms, H-1B workers constitute less than 1 percent of their total employee base, leading the organization to anticipate only [&hellip;]<\/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-963777","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\/963777","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=963777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}