{"id":964819,"date":"2025-09-27T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964819"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T05:46:33","slug":"billionaire-silicon-valley-investor-says-us-h-1b-visa-policy-could-backfire-engineers-from-indian-universities-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/billionaire-silicon-valley-investor-says-us-h-1b-visa-policy-could-backfire-engineers-from-indian-universities-are\/","title":{"rendered":"Billionaire Silicon Valley investor says US&#8217; H-1B visa policy could backfire: \u2018Engineers from Indian universities are\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz, whose investments in Google, PayPal, and other tech giants helped shape the modern internet, has sharply criticised President Donald Trump&#8217;s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, warning that the policy will backfire and demonstrates the administration&#8217;s fundamental misunderstanding of what drives American tech success.<\/p>\n<p>The policy, announced Friday through a presidential proclamation, imposes the steep fee on new H-1B visa applications starting September 21, representing a dramatic increase from current fees of $2,000 to $5,000. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Billionaire Silicon Valley investor Michael Moritz, whose investments in Google, PayPal, and other tech giants helped shape the modern internet, has sharply criticised President Donald Trump&#8217;s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, warning that the policy will backfire and demonstrates the administration&#8217;s fundamental misunderstanding of what drives American tech success. The policy, announced Friday through a presidential proclamation, imposes the steep fee on new H-1B visa applications starting September 21, representing a dramatic increase from current fees of $2,000 to $5,000.<\/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-964819","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\/964819","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=964819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}