{"id":964934,"date":"2025-09-27T12:13:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964934"},"modified":"2025-09-27T12:13:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:43:01","slug":"tweaks-to-h-1b-policy-will-widen-skill-gap-in-us-predict-experts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/27\/tweaks-to-h-1b-policy-will-widen-skill-gap-in-us-predict-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tweaks to H-1B policy will widen skill gap in US, predict experts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: As the United States moves to raise H-1B visa application costs by a staggering $100,000 (Rs 88.2 lakh), concerns are mounting that the policy could cripple the flow of skilled migrants and deepen America&#8217;s talent crunch. The proposed hike marks a dramatic leap from the current fee, and analysts fear it may significantly shrink the pipeline of global talent into the country.<\/p>\n<p>This comes at a time when American industries, from technology to manufacturing to healthcare, are struggling with widening labour shortages, and the latest data only confirms that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: As the United States moves to raise H-1B visa application costs by a staggering $100,000 (Rs 88.2 lakh), concerns are mounting that the policy could cripple the flow of skilled migrants and deepen America&#8217;s talent crunch. The proposed hike marks a dramatic leap from the current fee, and analysts fear it may significantly shrink the pipeline of global talent into the country. This comes at a time when American industries, from technology to manufacturing to healthcare, are struggling with widening labour shortages, and the latest data only confirms that.<\/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-964934","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\/964934","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=964934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964934\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}