{"id":998908,"date":"2026-03-21T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T06:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=998908"},"modified":"2026-03-21T12:57:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:27:26","slug":"us-lawmakers-move-to-spare-h-1b-healthcare-workers-from-100k-entry-fee-bill-gains-bipartisan-backing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/21\/us-lawmakers-move-to-spare-h-1b-healthcare-workers-from-100k-entry-fee-bill-gains-bipartisan-backing\/","title":{"rendered":"US lawmakers move to spare H-1B healthcare workers from $100K entry-fee; bill gains bipartisan backing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan bill introduced in the US House of Representatives seeks to exempt American sponsors of physicians and other healthcare professionals on H-1B visas from a steep $100K surcharge imposed under a presidential proclamation in Sept.Titled the \u2018H-1Bs for Physicians and the Healthcare Workforce Act,\u2019 the bill was introduced by Congressman Mike Lawler along with Representatives Sanford Bishop, Maria Elvira Salazar and Yvette Clarke, amid growing concern that the newly introduced entry fee could worsen staff shortages in US hospitals and medical facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bipartisan bill introduced in the US House of Representatives seeks to exempt American sponsors of physicians and other healthcare professionals on H-1B visas from a steep $100K surcharge imposed under a presidential proclamation in Sept.Titled the \u2018H-1Bs for Physicians and the Healthcare Workforce Act,\u2019 the bill was introduced by Congressman Mike Lawler along with Representatives Sanford Bishop, Maria Elvira Salazar and Yvette Clarke, amid growing concern that the newly introduced entry fee could worsen staff shortages in US hospitals and medical facilities.<\/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-998908","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\/998908","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=998908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/998908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=998908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=998908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}