{"id":977613,"date":"2025-12-01T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977613"},"modified":"2025-12-01T12:45:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T07:15:12","slug":"h-1b-nod-for-it-firms-drops-to-4-5k-lowest-in-a-decade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/01\/h-1b-nod-for-it-firms-drops-to-4-5k-lowest-in-a-decade\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B nod for IT firms drops to 4.5k, lowest in a decade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The top seven Indian IT firms received only 4,573 H-1B petitions approved for initial employment in FY 2025\u2014a 70% decline from 2015 and 37% fewer than in 2024, according to the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). The analysis, based on data from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, shows TCS is the only Indian IT services company among the top five employers securing approvals for new H-1B workers in the US.<\/p>\n<p>TCS is also the only Indian IT company in the top five for continuing-employment approvals, though its rejection rate for extensions increased to 7%, up from 4% in 2024, and significantly higher than its peers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BENGALURU: The top seven Indian IT firms received only 4,573 H-1B petitions approved for initial employment in FY 2025\u2014a 70% decline from 2015 and 37% fewer than in 2024, according to the National Foundation for American Policy (NFAP). The analysis, based on data from the USCIS H-1B Employer Data Hub, shows TCS is the only Indian IT services company among the top five employers securing approvals for new H-1B workers in the US. TCS is also the only Indian IT company in the top five for continuing-employment approvals, though its rejection rate for extensions increased to 7%, up from 4% [&hellip;]<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977613","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=977613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}