{"id":964910,"date":"2025-09-27T11:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964910"},"modified":"2025-09-27T11:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:26:51","slug":"silicon-valley-startup-ceo-challenges-us-h-1b-visa-fees-hike-says-100000-fees-will-favor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/silicon-valley-startup-ceo-challenges-us-h-1b-visa-fees-hike-says-100000-fees-will-favor\/","title":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley startup CEO challenges US&#8217; H-1B visa fees hike, says $100,000 fees will favor\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Box CEO Aaron Levie is pushing back against President Trump&#8217;s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, warning the policy will give large tech companies an unfair advantage over cash-strapped startups in the competition for global talent. Speaking on &#8220;The A16z Podcast&#8221; alongside Andreessen Horowitz partners, Levie argued that the steep fee structure essentially turns international hiring into &#8220;a spending game&#8221; that smaller companies cannot win. The new policy, which takes effect September 21, represents a dramatic jump from current fees of $2,000 to $5,000.<\/p>\n<p>Startup founders warn of talent wars disadvantage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Box CEO Aaron Levie is pushing back against President Trump&#8217;s $100,000 H-1B visa fee, warning the policy will give large tech companies an unfair advantage over cash-strapped startups in the competition for global talent. Speaking on &#8220;The A16z Podcast&#8221; alongside Andreessen Horowitz partners, Levie argued that the steep fee structure essentially turns international hiring into &#8220;a spending game&#8221; that smaller companies cannot win. The new policy, which takes effect September 21, represents a dramatic jump from current fees of $2,000 to $5,000. Startup founders warn of talent wars disadvantage<\/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-964910","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\/964910","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=964910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}