{"id":1002398,"date":"2026-04-10T12:00:30","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T06:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002398"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:31:36","slug":"not-just-drugs-and-thugs-anymore-immigration-attorney-says-h-1b-employers-getting-intense-investigations-from-labor-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/10\/not-just-drugs-and-thugs-anymore-immigration-attorney-says-h-1b-employers-getting-intense-investigations-from-labor-department\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Not just drugs and thugs anymore&#8217;: Immigration attorney says H-1B employers getting intense investigations from Labor Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department has stepped up investigations into employers using the H-1B program to hire foreign workers and they are making site visits, asking the employers complicated, technical questions, Bloomberg reported, citing data that the DOL has marked a 48% increase in its caseload of H-1B investigations since it launched Project Firewall. This project was launched last year to ensure that the H-1B visa program is not abused and the rights, wages and job opportunities of US workers are protected.<\/p>\n<p>The department is also taking AI help to find loopholes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Labor Department has stepped up investigations into employers using the H-1B program to hire foreign workers and they are making site visits, asking the employers complicated, technical questions, Bloomberg reported, citing data that the DOL has marked a 48% increase in its caseload of H-1B investigations since it launched Project Firewall. This project was launched last year to ensure that the H-1B visa program is not abused and the rights, wages and job opportunities of US workers are protected. The department is also taking AI help to find loopholes.<\/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-1002398","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\/1002398","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=1002398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}