{"id":966580,"date":"2025-10-07T11:33:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966580"},"modified":"2025-10-07T11:33:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T06:03:29","slug":"h-1b-fee-hike-chokes-off-path-for-us-grads-consultancies-halt-intake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/07\/h-1b-fee-hike-chokes-off-path-for-us-grads-consultancies-halt-intake\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B fee hike chokes off path for US grads; consultancies halt intake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: The recent H-1B fee hike is beginning to impact international students and fresh graduates in the US. A few Job consultancies, which often connect students with potential employers, have paused new applications, citing higher costs and reduced interest from companies. As a result, those without prior work experience are finding it increasingly difficult to secure opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new rule, companies applying to sponsor a new H-1B visa must pay a one-time fee of $100,000 (Rs 88.6 lakh approx).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: The recent H-1B fee hike is beginning to impact international students and fresh graduates in the US. A few Job consultancies, which often connect students with potential employers, have paused new applications, citing higher costs and reduced interest from companies. As a result, those without prior work experience are finding it increasingly difficult to secure opportunities. Under the new rule, companies applying to sponsor a new H-1B visa must pay a one-time fee of $100,000 (Rs 88.6 lakh approx).<\/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-966580","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\/966580","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=966580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}