{"id":964203,"date":"2025-09-25T08:48:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964203"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:40:31","slug":"h1b-fee-hike-will-hit-us-startups-and-innovation-more-will-have-minimal-impact-on-indias-it-sector-usispf-chief-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/h1b-fee-hike-will-hit-us-startups-and-innovation-more-will-have-minimal-impact-on-indias-it-sector-usispf-chief-2\/","title":{"rendered":"H1B fee hike will hit US startups and innovation more, will have minimal impact on India&#8217;s IT sector: USISPF Chief"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The recent H1B visa fee hike announced by the US administration will hit more to startups and innovation of the United States than India&#8217;s IT services exports, said US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) President and CEO Mukesh Aghi. <\/p>\n<p>In an exclusive conversation with ANI, Aghi said the move may in fact work in favour of India. &#8220;It works in favour of India because from a US perspective, H-1B was being abused in some manner, and they would like to bring in high-quality people to the US. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The recent H1B visa fee hike announced by the US administration will hit more to startups and innovation of the United States than India&#8217;s IT services exports, said US-India Strategic Partnership Forum (USISPF) President and CEO Mukesh Aghi. In an exclusive conversation with ANI, Aghi said the move may in fact work in favour of India. &#8220;It works in favour of India because from a US perspective, H-1B was being abused in some manner, and they would like to bring in high-quality people to the US.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964203","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=964203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}