{"id":968940,"date":"2025-10-22T12:05:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=968940"},"modified":"2025-10-22T12:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T06:35:30","slug":"100k-h-1b-fee-not-for-stay-extensions-status-changes-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/22\/100k-h-1b-fee-not-for-stay-extensions-status-changes-us\/","title":{"rendered":"$100k H-1B fee not for stay extensions, status changes: US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government exempted foreign students from its controversial $100,000 H-1B visa fee on Monday, bringing relief to thousands of graduates \u2014 including from India who make up among the largest cohorts in American colleges &#8212; who feared employers would abandon sponsorship plans due to the prohibitive cost.<\/p>\n<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services clarified on its website that the new fee applies only to H-1B petitions involving individuals outside the US, meaning foreign students already in America can transition from F-1 student visas to H-1B work visas without triggering the charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government exempted foreign students from its controversial $100,000 H-1B visa fee on Monday, bringing relief to thousands of graduates \u2014 including from India who make up among the largest cohorts in American colleges &#8212; who feared employers would abandon sponsorship plans due to the prohibitive cost. US Citizenship and Immigration Services clarified on its website that the new fee applies only to H-1B petitions involving individuals outside the US, meaning foreign students already in America can transition from F-1 student visas to H-1B work visas without triggering the charge.<\/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-968940","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\/968940","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=968940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}