{"id":981860,"date":"2025-12-24T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981860"},"modified":"2025-12-24T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T02:41:15","slug":"us-visa-curbs-ai-surge-shape-cautious-outlook-for-indian-it-in-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/us-visa-curbs-ai-surge-shape-cautious-outlook-for-indian-it-in-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"US visa curbs, AI surge shape cautious outlook for Indian IT in 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s $280-billion IT industry heads into 2026, balancing visa-related headwinds and global trade uncertainty against its biggest-ever push into artificial intelligence and the rapid expansion of global capability centres (GCCs). <\/p>\n<p>Heightened scrutiny of the US H-1B visa programme &#8211; including a proposed $100,000 fee for new visas and concerns over a potential 25% outsourcing tax &#8211; has complicated cross-border delivery for Indian firms, even as companies accelerate efforts to reduce reliance on onsite staffing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s $280-billion IT industry heads into 2026, balancing visa-related headwinds and global trade uncertainty against its biggest-ever push into artificial intelligence and the rapid expansion of global capability centres (GCCs). Heightened scrutiny of the US H-1B visa programme &#8211; including a proposed $100,000 fee for new visas and concerns over a potential 25% outsourcing tax &#8211; has complicated cross-border delivery for Indian firms, even as companies accelerate efforts to reduce reliance on onsite staffing.<\/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":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981860","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=981860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}