{"id":982150,"date":"2025-12-26T10:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:18:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982150"},"modified":"2025-12-26T10:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T05:18:06","slug":"nasscom-flags-crushing-effect-of-trump-admins-new-h-1b-visa-selection-policy-small-mid-sized-companies-to-bear-brunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/26\/nasscom-flags-crushing-effect-of-trump-admins-new-h-1b-visa-selection-policy-small-mid-sized-companies-to-bear-brunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Nasscom flags crushing effect of Trump admin&#8217;s new H-1B visa selection policy &#8211; Small, mid-sized companies to bear brunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States moves to replace its longstanding H-1B visa lottery with a wage-based selection mechanism, the Indian IT industry body has said that such a decision will impact smaller and mid-sized companies working in the US, which depend on academic calendars, client delivery schedules, and product release cycles to recruit their employees.<\/p>\n<p>Nasscom&#8217;s statement comes at a time when the Donald Trump administration is replacing the random lottery system that has long selected H-1B visa beneficiaries. Now, a process will be implemented where employees with higher wages and better skills will be prioritised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the United States moves to replace its longstanding H-1B visa lottery with a wage-based selection mechanism, the Indian IT industry body has said that such a decision will impact smaller and mid-sized companies working in the US, which depend on academic calendars, client delivery schedules, and product release cycles to recruit their employees. Nasscom&#8217;s statement comes at a time when the Donald Trump administration is replacing the random lottery system that has long selected H-1B visa beneficiaries. Now, a process will be implemented where employees with higher wages and better skills will be prioritised.<\/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-982150","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\/982150","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=982150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}