{"id":977568,"date":"2025-12-01T11:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977568"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:01:00","slug":"h-1b-visa-will-us-double-quota-amid-trumps-100000-fee-shock-lawmaker-raja-krishnamoorthi-reintroduces-hire-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/01\/h-1b-visa-will-us-double-quota-amid-trumps-100000-fee-shock-lawmaker-raja-krishnamoorthi-reintroduces-hire-act\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa: Will US double quota amid Trump&#8217;s $100,000 fee shock? Lawmaker Raja Krishnamoorthi reintroduces HIRE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid US President Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on immigrants and H-1B visas, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Illinois, has announced the reintroduction of the HIRE Act to increase the number of H-1B visas available each year from 65,000 to 130,000.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation \u2014 High-Skilled Immigration Reform for Employment (HIRE Act) \u2014 which seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the availability of H-1B non-immigrant visas \u2014 aims to expand access to high-skilled talent from around the world, while growing the domestic workforce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid US President Donald Trump&#8217;s crackdown on immigrants and H-1B visas, Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi, a Democrat from Illinois, has announced the reintroduction of the HIRE Act to increase the number of H-1B visas available each year from 65,000 to 130,000. The legislation \u2014 High-Skilled Immigration Reform for Employment (HIRE Act) \u2014 which seeks to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to expand the availability of H-1B non-immigrant visas \u2014 aims to expand access to high-skilled talent from around the world, while growing the domestic workforce.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977568","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=977568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}