{"id":964421,"date":"2025-09-26T08:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964421"},"modified":"2025-09-26T08:54:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T03:24:47","slug":"rattled-by-trumps-chaotic-h-1b-policy-us-firms-quietly-wait-out-changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/26\/rattled-by-trumps-chaotic-h-1b-policy-us-firms-quietly-wait-out-changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Rattled by Trump&#8217;s chaotic H-1B policy, US firms quietly wait out changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s steep new visa fees for highly specialized H-1B work visas have rattled US businesses, but most big companies are staying quiet as they wait to see how the policy plays out. <\/p>\n<p>The White House\u2019s announcement Sept. 19 of a $100,000 fee sparked panic among employers and workers, particularly in the tech sector, which uses it to bring in trained engineers and programmers. A separate proposal released Tuesday would overhaul the annual lottery for H-1B visas, giving applicants with higher-paying job offers a better chance of being chosen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s steep new visa fees for highly specialized H-1B work visas have rattled US businesses, but most big companies are staying quiet as they wait to see how the policy plays out. The White House\u2019s announcement Sept. 19 of a $100,000 fee sparked panic among employers and workers, particularly in the tech sector, which uses it to bring in trained engineers and programmers. A separate proposal released Tuesday would overhaul the annual lottery for H-1B visas, giving applicants with higher-paying job offers a better chance of being chosen.<\/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-964421","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\/964421","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=964421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}