{"id":244062,"date":"2025-10-22T17:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244062\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T17:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:38:11","slug":"walmart-halts-job-offers-for-h-1b-visa-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/244062\/","title":{"rendered":"Walmart halts job offers for H-1B visa applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">(CNN) &#8211; Walmart is halting job offers for applicants who need H-1B visas to work in the United States.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The pause comes after President Donald Trump announced a $100,000 fee for the visas, which are used to hire highly skilled foreign workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The move highlights how major companies are changing their policies in response to the administration\u2019s tougher immigration policies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Walmart is the nation\u2019s largest private-sector employer with more than 2,000 H-1B visa holders working for the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Many of them work in tech and e-commerce roles that help Walmart compete with Amazon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The White House argued the new fee will curb abuse of the system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(CNN) &#8211; Walmart is halting job offers for applicants who need H-1B visas to work in the United&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[960,23,12,103227,104611,3,21,19,22,20,25,24,4369,133813,133812,133814],"class_list":["post-244062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-amazon","tag-america","tag-donald-trump","tag-h-1b-visa-fee","tag-h-1b-visas","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-walmart","tag-walmart-jobs","tag-walmart-visa","tag-work-visas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}