{"id":965064,"date":"2025-09-29T08:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T03:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=965064"},"modified":"2025-09-29T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T04:02:17","slug":"who-are-the-richest-h-1b-immigrant-founders-in-the-us-net-worth-career-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/29\/who-are-the-richest-h-1b-immigrant-founders-in-the-us-net-worth-career-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are the richest H-1B immigrant founders in the US: Net worth, career, stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of immigrant billionaires got their start in the US with the help of a visa designed to attract highly skilled talent. As the Trump administration tightens its rules around H-1B visas by slapping a hefty $1,000,000 annual fee on employers, there\u2019s a long list of immigrants who boosted the US economy, not just by leading companies but also by founding some of Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest giants. Today, many of America\u2019s billionaire-backed tech firms remain the most prolific users of H-1B visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A handful of immigrant billionaires got their start in the US with the help of a visa designed to attract highly skilled talent. As the Trump administration tightens its rules around H-1B visas by slapping a hefty $1,000,000 annual fee on employers, there\u2019s a long list of immigrants who boosted the US economy, not just by leading companies but also by founding some of Silicon Valley\u2019s biggest giants. Today, many of America\u2019s billionaire-backed tech firms remain the most prolific users of H-1B visas.<\/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-965064","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\/965064","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=965064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}