{"id":1000353,"date":"2026-04-01T08:05:43","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000353"},"modified":"2026-04-01T08:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:28:11","slug":"h-1b-selection-rates-see-50-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/h-1b-selection-rates-see-50-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B selection rates see 50% jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration attorneys are seeing a significant increase in selection rates in H-1B applications this year, with as much as half of those being accepted, even as the number of petitions filed for the work permit has declined amid regulatory changes. <\/p>\n<p>The average selection rate was 35% last year, according to data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US immigration attorneys are seeing a significant increase in selection rates in H-1B applications this year, with as much as half of those being accepted, even as the number of petitions filed for the work permit has declined amid regulatory changes. The average selection rate was 35% last year, according to data from the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000353","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=1000353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}