{"id":969641,"date":"2025-10-27T11:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969641"},"modified":"2025-10-27T11:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T06:18:07","slug":"us-h-1b-visa-fee-impact-now-showing-how-companies-are-switching-to-local-hires-turning-thoughtful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/27\/us-h-1b-visa-fee-impact-now-showing-how-companies-are-switching-to-local-hires-turning-thoughtful\/","title":{"rendered":"US H-1B visa fee impact now showing: How companies are switching to local hires, turning \u2018thoughtful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a month after the introduction of the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, US firms have started tweaking their hiring policies to minimise the impact as this visa was key to bringing foreign tech talent, most of them Indians, into the country.<\/p>\n<p>One of the major outcomes being that a large number of companies have halted their sponsorship of H-1B visas for certain job roles, and switched to local hires and workers who already have H-1B visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a month after the introduction of the new $100,000 H-1B visa fee, US firms have started tweaking their hiring policies to minimise the impact as this visa was key to bringing foreign tech talent, most of them Indians, into the country. One of the major outcomes being that a large number of companies have halted their sponsorship of H-1B visas for certain job roles, and switched to local hires and workers who already have H-1B visas.<\/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-969641","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\/969641","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=969641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}