{"id":969334,"date":"2025-10-24T12:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969334"},"modified":"2025-10-24T12:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:35:08","slug":"what-is-the-massive-loophole-in-100000-h-1b-fee-that-indian-lobbies-in-us-are-celebrating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/what-is-the-massive-loophole-in-100000-h-1b-fee-that-indian-lobbies-in-us-are-celebrating\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the &#8216;massive loophole&#8217; in $100,000 H-1B fee that Indian lobbies in US are celebrating?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the USCIS issued further clarification on who is exempt from the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, several Indian lobbies and immigration attorneys celebrated the &#8216;massive loophole&#8217; that makes students on an F1 visa exempt from the fee. The USCIS clarified that individuals who are already in the United States and are seeking a change of status to an H-1B, extension of stay or amendment (a change in the employer) won&#8217;t require the fee.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 deedydas (@deedydas)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the USCIS issued further clarification on who is exempt from the $100,000 H-1B visa fee, several Indian lobbies and immigration attorneys celebrated the &#8216;massive loophole&#8217; that makes students on an F1 visa exempt from the fee. The USCIS clarified that individuals who are already in the United States and are seeking a change of status to an H-1B, extension of stay or amendment (a change in the employer) won&#8217;t require the fee. \u2014 deedydas (@deedydas)<\/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-969334","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\/969334","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=969334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}