{"id":963849,"date":"2025-09-24T08:38:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963849"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:59:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:29:18","slug":"happiest-minds-sees-negligible-biz-impact-from-h-1b-visa-fee-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/happiest-minds-sees-negligible-biz-impact-from-h-1b-visa-fee-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Happiest Minds sees negligible biz impact from H-1B visa fee hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-tier IT firm Happiest Minds Technologies on Tuesday said the majority of its employees are based in India, and it expects negligible impact on operations and business outlook from the recent increase in H-1B visa fees.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Trump administration announced a one-time $1,00,000 fee on H-1B visas.<\/p>\n<p>All new H-1B visa petitions submitted after September 21, including those for the FY2026 lottery, will require payment of the $100,000 fee. USCIS has clarified that the fee does not apply to any petitions filed before the 12:01 am deadline on September 21, previously issued H-1B visas, renewal petitions, and H-1B holders re-entering the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mid-tier IT firm Happiest Minds Technologies on Tuesday said the majority of its employees are based in India, and it expects negligible impact on operations and business outlook from the recent increase in H-1B visa fees. Last week, the Trump administration announced a one-time $1,00,000 fee on H-1B visas. All new H-1B visa petitions submitted after September 21, including those for the FY2026 lottery, will require payment of the $100,000 fee. USCIS has clarified that the fee does not apply to any petitions filed before the 12:01 am deadline on September 21, previously issued H-1B visas, renewal petitions, and H-1B [&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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963849","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=963849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}