{"id":964851,"date":"2025-09-27T11:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964851"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:05:12","slug":"us-lawmakers-to-apple-amazon-and-other-companies-after-h-1b-visa-fee-hike-why-are-you-hiring-thousands-of-foreign-workers-while-cutting-other-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/us-lawmakers-to-apple-amazon-and-other-companies-after-h-1b-visa-fee-hike-why-are-you-hiring-thousands-of-foreign-workers-while-cutting-other-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers to Apple, Amazon and other companies after H-1B visa fee hike: Why are you hiring thousands of foreign workers while cutting other jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers have reportedly sent letters to major companies, including Apple, Amazon, and JPMorgan, demanding an explanation for hiring thousands of foreign workers on H-1B visas while simultaneously reducing other job openings. The inquiries, led by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, request detailed information from the companies on the number of H-1B workers they employ, their wages, and whether American workers have been displaced, according to a report. The lawmakers&#8217; action follows the Trump administration&#8217;s recent announcement that it will impose a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa petitions. The administration has also proposed changes to the visa selection process to favour higher-skilled and better-paid foreign workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US lawmakers have reportedly sent letters to major companies, including Apple, Amazon, and JPMorgan, demanding an explanation for hiring thousands of foreign workers on H-1B visas while simultaneously reducing other job openings. The inquiries, led by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley and Democratic Senator Dick Durbin, request detailed information from the companies on the number of H-1B workers they employ, their wages, and whether American workers have been displaced, according to a report. The lawmakers&#8217; action follows the Trump administration&#8217;s recent announcement that it will impose a $100,000 fee for new H-1B visa petitions. The administration has also proposed changes to [&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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964851","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\/964851","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=964851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964851\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}