{"id":965060,"date":"2025-09-29T08:31:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965060"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:00:19","slug":"amid-h-1b-pushback-india-defends-legal-immigration-as-280bn-it-industry-thousands-of-jobs-at-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/29\/amid-h-1b-pushback-india-defends-legal-immigration-as-280bn-it-industry-thousands-of-jobs-at-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid H-1B pushback, India defends legal immigration as $280bn IT industry, thousands of jobs at risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the United States\u2019 starkly vehement stance against H-1B visas in an \u2018America First\u2019 ideology era, India is standing its ground. Defending not only skilled workers but also legal immigration at large, the South Asian government spoke out against any other narrative arising on the front after US President Donald Trump\u2019s severe overhaul of the nonimmigrant work visa category and stricter rules. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking to reporter at a briefing in New Delhi, Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India\u2019s External Affairs Ministry, said this week that economies of both India and America have long gained benefits from the skilled worker flow thanks to H-1B visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite the United States\u2019 starkly vehement stance against H-1B visas in an \u2018America First\u2019 ideology era, India is standing its ground. Defending not only skilled workers but also legal immigration at large, the South Asian government spoke out against any other narrative arising on the front after US President Donald Trump\u2019s severe overhaul of the nonimmigrant work visa category and stricter rules. Speaking to reporter at a briefing in New Delhi, Randhir Jaiswal, spokesperson for India\u2019s External Affairs Ministry, said this week that economies of both India and America have long gained benefits from the skilled worker flow thanks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-965060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965060","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=965060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}