{"id":1004069,"date":"2026-04-21T11:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004069"},"modified":"2026-04-21T11:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:18:08","slug":"fe-exclusive-us-opens-new-h-1b-and-f-1-visa-appointment-slots-in-india-after-months-backlog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/21\/fe-exclusive-us-opens-new-h-1b-and-f-1-visa-appointment-slots-in-india-after-months-backlog\/","title":{"rendered":"FE Exclusive: US opens new H-1B and F-1 visa appointment slots in India after months backlog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US consulates in India have started releasing new interview slots for H-1B work visas, H-4 dependent visas, and fresh F-1 student visas after months of major disruption. Speaking to financialexpress.com, Murthy Law Firm explained that this shift comes after a long backlog created due to enhanced social media and vetting checks that had pushed appointments far into 2026 and even 2027 in some cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US consulates in India have started releasing new interview slots for H-1B work visas, H-4 dependent visas, and fresh F-1 student visas after months of major disruption. Speaking to financialexpress.com, Murthy Law Firm explained that this shift comes after a long backlog created due to enhanced social media and vetting checks that had pushed appointments far into 2026 and even 2027 in some cases.<\/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-1004069","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\/1004069","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=1004069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}