The Trump administration\u2019s hefty new H-1B visa fees are already triggering high-level discussions in Silicon Valley and beyond about moving jobs overseas, ironically, the opposite of what the policy intended. <\/p>\n
While the government has already clarified that the $100,000 fee applies only to new H-1B applicants, and not current holders, the rollout and its hefty cost are causing companies to pause recruitment, adjust budgets, and rethink workforce plans, according to a Reuters interview with founders, venture capitalists, and immigration lawyers who work with tech firms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Trump administration\u2019s hefty new H-1B visa fees are already triggering high-level discussions in Silicon Valley and beyond about moving jobs overseas, ironically, the opposite of what the policy intended. While the government has already clarified that the $100,000 fee applies only to new H-1B applicants, and not current holders, the rollout and its hefty cost are causing companies to pause recruitment, adjust budgets, and rethink workforce plans, according to a Reuters interview with founders, venture capitalists, and immigration lawyers who work with tech firms.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964289","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=964289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}