{"id":969868,"date":"2025-10-28T08:41:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969868"},"modified":"2025-10-28T08:53:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T03:23:23","slug":"tech-jobs-are-out-of-reach-for-us-citizens-american-who-was-on-h-1b-rings-alarm-bells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/28\/tech-jobs-are-out-of-reach-for-us-citizens-american-who-was-on-h-1b-rings-alarm-bells\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Tech jobs are out of reach for US citizens\u2019, American who was on H-1B rings alarm bells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa program has long been a point of contention, and a recent reform requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 application fee, aims to curb what a few call \u201cabuse\u201d of the system. Reflecting these concerns, a viral social media post from a former H-1B visa holder has reignited debate about the program\u2019s impact on American workers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was on an H-1B for 20 years,\u201d he shared. \u201cLast year I finally received my green card. Now my son is 18, a US citizen and in a few years he will need a tech job. But I am seeing how tough that market already is for citizens and green card holders.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa program has long been a point of contention, and a recent reform requiring employers to pay a hefty $100,000 application fee, aims to curb what a few call \u201cabuse\u201d of the system. Reflecting these concerns, a viral social media post from a former H-1B visa holder has reignited debate about the program\u2019s impact on American workers. \u201cI was on an H-1B for 20 years,\u201d he shared. \u201cLast year I finally received my green card. Now my son is 18, a US citizen and in a few years he will need a tech job. But I am seeing how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-969868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969868","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}