{"id":964811,"date":"2025-09-27T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964811"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:39:11","slug":"best-of-the-week-trumps-100000-h-1b-sticker-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/best-of-the-week-trumps-100000-h-1b-sticker-shock\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of the Week: Trump&#8217;s $100,000 H-1B sticker shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of Indians chasing the American dream, the H-1B visa has long been a golden ticket\u2014a way to turn ambition into opportunity. But last week, the Trump administration dropped a bombshell: the application fee has jumped from $1,000 to a staggering $100,000. While it\u2019s a one-time charge, not an annual one, the sheer scale of the hike feels like a door slammed shut\u2014especially for smaller businesses, schools, and healthcare institutions that simply can\u2019t shoulder such costs.<\/p>\n<p>The irony? The US has thrived for decades on the brilliance of foreign talent\u2014think Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and countless Indian engineers and doctors who\u2019ve helped build its economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For thousands of Indians chasing the American dream, the H-1B visa has long been a golden ticket\u2014a way to turn ambition into opportunity. But last week, the Trump administration dropped a bombshell: the application fee has jumped from $1,000 to a staggering $100,000. While it\u2019s a one-time charge, not an annual one, the sheer scale of the hike feels like a door slammed shut\u2014especially for smaller businesses, schools, and healthcare institutions that simply can\u2019t shoulder such costs. The irony? The US has thrived for decades on the brilliance of foreign talent\u2014think Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and countless Indian engineers and [&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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964811","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=964811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}