{"id":971091,"date":"2025-11-01T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T02:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=971091"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:54:43","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T03:24:43","slug":"opt-f-1-student-visa-holders-moving-to-h-1b-will-not-trigger-100k-fee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/01\/opt-f-1-student-visa-holders-moving-to-h-1b-will-not-trigger-100k-fee\/","title":{"rendered":"OPT, F-1 student visa holders moving to H-1B will not trigger $100K fee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International students in the United States stand to benefit from the new $100,000 H-1B petition fee. US authorities have clarified that foreign students currently in the US on an F-1 visa can be employed by a US employer without the requirement of a $100,000 petition fee. The foreign students may be studying or enrolled in an OPT program. <\/p>\n<p>From an F-1 visa, students can transition to an H-1B visa. In guidance from USCIS on October 20, it was clarified that the recent $100,000 petition fee will not affect \u201cchange of status\u201d cases, such as F-1 students transitioning to H-1B skilled worker visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International students in the United States stand to benefit from the new $100,000 H-1B petition fee. US authorities have clarified that foreign students currently in the US on an F-1 visa can be employed by a US employer without the requirement of a $100,000 petition fee. The foreign students may be studying or enrolled in an OPT program. From an F-1 visa, students can transition to an H-1B visa. In guidance from USCIS on October 20, it was clarified that the recent $100,000 petition fee will not affect \u201cchange of status\u201d cases, such as F-1 students transitioning to H-1B skilled [&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-971091","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\/971091","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=971091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/971091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=971091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=971091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}