{"id":964070,"date":"2025-09-24T12:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964070"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T06:57:24","slug":"80-competition-vanished-ex-meta-employee-says-h1b-fee-opens-door-for-americans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/24\/80-competition-vanished-ex-meta-employee-says-h1b-fee-opens-door-for-americans\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201880% competition vanished\u2019: Ex-Meta employee says H1B fee opens door for Americans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Meta employee has sparked a fierce debate on H-1B visas after United States President Donald Trump announced a one-time fee of $100,000 for all new applications. Zach Wilson, now the founder of a San Francisco-based data analytics company, took to X to reflect on his time at Meta in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I worked at Meta in 2017, I was on a team of 17 people. Fifteen of the 17 were on H-1B visas. I was one of two Americans on the team. Just for core growth data engineering, that\u2019s 1.5 million dollars in visa fees under the new rules,\u201d Wilson wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Meta employee has sparked a fierce debate on H-1B visas after United States President Donald Trump announced a one-time fee of $100,000 for all new applications. Zach Wilson, now the founder of a San Francisco-based data analytics company, took to X to reflect on his time at Meta in 2017. \u201cWhen I worked at Meta in 2017, I was on a team of 17 people. Fifteen of the 17 were on H-1B visas. I was one of two Americans on the team. Just for core growth data engineering, that\u2019s 1.5 million dollars in visa fees under the new [&hellip;]<\/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-964070","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\/964070","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=964070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}