{"id":985608,"date":"2026-01-16T08:54:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985608"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:55:48","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:25:48","slug":"student-loan-companies-feel-the-pressure-of-us-visa-squeeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/student-loan-companies-feel-the-pressure-of-us-visa-squeeze\/","title":{"rendered":"Student loan companies feel the pressure of US visa squeeze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Education loans for study abroad dropped 30-50% in calendar 2025 from the year before amid tightening visa norms in the US, according to non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and platforms that facilitate such credit. The trend is expected to continue and potentially worsen over the next year. <\/p>\n<p>While students are exploring alternatives such as the UK, France, Germany and other East European nations, executives said the lending volumes historically driven by US universities will be difficult to replicate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Education loans for study abroad dropped 30-50% in calendar 2025 from the year before amid tightening visa norms in the US, according to non-banking finance companies (NBFCs) and platforms that facilitate such credit. The trend is expected to continue and potentially worsen over the next year. While students are exploring alternatives such as the UK, France, Germany and other East European nations, executives said the lending volumes historically driven by US universities will be difficult to replicate.<\/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-985608","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\/985608","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=985608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985608\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}