{"id":968144,"date":"2025-10-17T12:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968144"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:25:56","slug":"heres-what-h1-b-visa-changes-mean-for-indian-tourists-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/17\/heres-what-h1-b-visa-changes-mean-for-indian-tourists-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s what H1-B visa changes mean for Indian tourists in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Donald Trump announced a fee of $100,000 for new H1-B visa applications. This meant that companies hiring working professionals from abroad had to pay this princely sum to facilitate their stay in the US.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration&#8217;s decision has had a disproportionate impact on Indian professionals, as they constitute a majority of H1-B visa beneficiaries (around 70% in recent years). This puts them far ahead of the Chinese (12%), who are the second-most H1-B visa earners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, Donald Trump announced a fee of $100,000 for new H1-B visa applications. This meant that companies hiring working professionals from abroad had to pay this princely sum to facilitate their stay in the US. The Trump administration&#8217;s decision has had a disproportionate impact on Indian professionals, as they constitute a majority of H1-B visa beneficiaries (around 70% in recent years). This puts them far ahead of the Chinese (12%), who are the second-most H1-B visa earners.<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968144","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=968144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}