{"id":993381,"date":"2026-02-18T08:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=993381"},"modified":"2026-02-18T08:51:27","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T03:21:27","slug":"h-1b-visa-100k-toll-why-us-employers-may-still-pay-big-for-foreign-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/18\/h-1b-visa-100k-toll-why-us-employers-may-still-pay-big-for-foreign-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B Visa $100K Toll: Why US employers may still pay big for foreign skills"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa has become costlier for US companies. For every H-1B petition filed to hire a foreign worker, the US employer has to pay a $100,000 fee to the US government. The $100,000 H-1B petition fee is in place since September 21, 2025, and will apply for the 2027 H-1B cap season as well. <\/p>\n<p>Will the newly imposed $100,000 H-1B petition fee deter US companies from hiring foreign workers? <\/p>\n<p>A study authored by George J. Borjas, Harvard University and NBER suggests that firms may be willing to pay a one-time fee to obtain the visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa has become costlier for US companies. For every H-1B petition filed to hire a foreign worker, the US employer has to pay a $100,000 fee to the US government. The $100,000 H-1B petition fee is in place since September 21, 2025, and will apply for the 2027 H-1B cap season as well. Will the newly imposed $100,000 H-1B petition fee deter US companies from hiring foreign workers? A study authored by George J. Borjas, Harvard University and NBER suggests that firms may be willing to pay a one-time fee to obtain the visa.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-993381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993381","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=993381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=993381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=993381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=993381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}