{"id":74378,"date":"2025-09-22T18:44:21","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/trump-india-h1-b-visa-fee-hike-response-afraid-of-talent"},"modified":"2025-09-22T18:44:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T09:44:21","slug":"afraid-of-our-talent-india-hits-back-against-trumps-h-1b-visa-fee-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74378","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Afraid of our talent\u2019: India hits back against Trump\u2019s H-1B visa fee hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has been one of the largest beneficiaries of H-1B visas, accounting for 71% of approved visas in 2024<\/p>\n<p>India has hit back at Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers in the US, sparking warnings by the Indian government that it would have \u201chumanitarian consequences\u201d and one minister claiming they were \u201cafraid of our talent\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, the US president announced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/19\/trump-h1b-visa-100000-fee\">new rules around the visas<\/a>, which allows companies to hire foreign workers in skilled occupations like IT, healthcare and engineering, to work in the US for up to six years.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/22\/trump-india-h1-b-visa-fee-hike-response-afraid-of-talent\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has been one of the largest beneficiaries of H-1B visas, accounting for 71% of approved visas in 2024India has hit back at Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose a $100,000 fee on H-1B visas for skilled foreign workers in the US, sparking warnings by &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1025,62,2615,1707,554],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amazon","category-india","category-meta","category-microsoft","category-trump-administration"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74379,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74378\/revisions\/74379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}