{"id":964031,"date":"2025-09-24T11:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964031"},"modified":"2025-09-24T11:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:00:13","slug":"h-1b-visa-100k-fee-spurs-tech-firms-in-kolkatas-sector-v-to-shift-focus-to-remote-work-india-based-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/h-1b-visa-100k-fee-spurs-tech-firms-in-kolkatas-sector-v-to-shift-focus-to-remote-work-india-based-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa $100K fee spurs tech firms in Kolkata&#8217;s Sector V to shift focus to remote work, India-based operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Stung by the steep $100,000 H-1B visa fee, companies in the tech hub of Sector V, including multinational firms, are planning strategy tweaks to skirt or soften the blow by reducing short on-site visits to the USA and shifting more work to India.<\/p>\n<p>Firms face tough choices \u2014 to absorb the cost, pass it on to clients or halt H-1B applications. Several officials indicated that the fee could accelerate remote work from India, creating more opportunities for city-based tech professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: Stung by the steep $100,000 H-1B visa fee, companies in the tech hub of Sector V, including multinational firms, are planning strategy tweaks to skirt or soften the blow by reducing short on-site visits to the USA and shifting more work to India. Firms face tough choices \u2014 to absorb the cost, pass it on to clients or halt H-1B applications. Several officials indicated that the fee could accelerate remote work from India, creating more opportunities for city-based tech professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964031","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}