{"id":1000482,"date":"2026-04-01T09:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T03:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000482"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T05:21:12","slug":"laid-off-h-1b-workers-face-new-risk-as-uscis-questions-b1-b2-status-switch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/01\/laid-off-h-1b-workers-face-new-risk-as-uscis-questions-b1-b2-status-switch\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid off H-1B workers face new risk as USCIS questions B1\/B2 status switch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Laid-off H-1B visa holders are struggling to transition to another non-immigrant visa while searching for new employment in the US. US immigration laws give H-1B holders who have lost their jobs a 60-day grace period to find a new employer or leave the country. <\/p>\n<p>During this 60-day window, they may search for a new job and switch to another visa, such as a B1\/B2 visa, which is typically a tourist or business visa. A B1\/B2 visa helps the laid-off H-1B holder to prolong the stay in the US and not necessarily leave within 60 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laid-off H-1B visa holders are struggling to transition to another non-immigrant visa while searching for new employment in the US. US immigration laws give H-1B holders who have lost their jobs a 60-day grace period to find a new employer or leave the country. During this 60-day window, they may search for a new job and switch to another visa, such as a B1\/B2 visa, which is typically a tourist or business visa. A B1\/B2 visa helps the laid-off H-1B holder to prolong the stay in the US and not necessarily leave within 60 days.<\/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-1000482","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\/1000482","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=1000482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}