{"id":976656,"date":"2025-11-26T08:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T03:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976656"},"modified":"2025-11-26T09:31:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T04:01:14","slug":"one-district-in-india-got-220k-h-1b-visas-over-2-5-times-the-us-cap-us-economist-flags-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/26\/one-district-in-india-got-220k-h-1b-visas-over-2-5-times-the-us-cap-us-economist-flags-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One district in India got 220k H-1B visas \u2014 over 2.5 times the US cap\u2019, US economist flags fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Congressman and economist Dr Dave Brat has called out India over the H-1B visa program, pointing to massive irregularities. He said that while the national cap for H-1B visas is 85,000, one Indian district alone received 220,000 visas, more than 2.5 times the limit. <\/p>\n<p>According to US government data, over 70% of H-1B visa holders are from India, while China follows with around 10\u201312%. After returning to the White House for a second term, Donald Trump has restricted these visas, imposing a hefty $100,000 fee under his \u201cAmerica-first\u201d approach. The move has sparked both celebration and controversy on a large scale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US Congressman and economist Dr Dave Brat has called out India over the H-1B visa program, pointing to massive irregularities. He said that while the national cap for H-1B visas is 85,000, one Indian district alone received 220,000 visas, more than 2.5 times the limit. According to US government data, over 70% of H-1B visa holders are from India, while China follows with around 10\u201312%. After returning to the White House for a second term, Donald Trump has restricted these visas, imposing a hefty $100,000 fee under his \u201cAmerica-first\u201d approach. The move has sparked both celebration and controversy on [&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-976656","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\/976656","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=976656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}