{"id":968718,"date":"2025-10-21T12:16:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968718"},"modified":"2025-10-21T12:16:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T06:46:58","slug":"h-1b-row-uscis-say-l1-and-f1-visa-holders-exempted-from-100000-fee-rule-doesnt-apply-to-change-of-status","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/21\/h-1b-row-uscis-say-l1-and-f1-visa-holders-exempted-from-100000-fee-rule-doesnt-apply-to-change-of-status\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B row: USCIS say L1 and F1 visa holders exempted from $100,000 fee &#8211; rule doesn&#8217;t apply to &#8216;change of status&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be a big relief for existing US visa holders, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) clarified in a fresh guideline Monday that existing visa holders will not have to pay the newly announced $100,000 fee for a &#8220;change of status&#8221; to H-1B visa.<\/p>\n<p>The new USCIS guidelines said existing visa holders, which include international students on F-1 visas and professionals on L-1 visas, will not have to pay $100,000 when they apply for a change of status to H-1B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what could be a big relief for existing US visa holders, the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) clarified in a fresh guideline Monday that existing visa holders will not have to pay the newly announced $100,000 fee for a &#8220;change of status&#8221; to H-1B visa. The new USCIS guidelines said existing visa holders, which include international students on F-1 visas and professionals on L-1 visas, will not have to pay $100,000 when they apply for a change of status to H-1B.<\/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-968718","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\/968718","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=968718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}