{"id":1004509,"date":"2026-04-23T09:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1004509"},"modified":"2026-04-23T10:10:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T04:40:51","slug":"lost-h-1b-lottery-twice-in-5-yrs-indian-origin-techies-visa-agent-now-serves-as-immigrants-workforce-atlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/23\/lost-h-1b-lottery-twice-in-5-yrs-indian-origin-techies-visa-agent-now-serves-as-immigrants-workforce-atlas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost H-1B lottery twice in 5 yrs, Indian-origin techie\u2019s \u2018visa agent\u2019 now serves as immigrants\u2019 \u2018workforce atlas\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-origin techie, who previously worked at Microsoft, recently confessed on social media that he was rejected from the H-1B visa lottery twice in the past five years. And yet, Harnoor Singh didn\u2019t let his failures crush the spirits of those still aspiring to make the most of the non-immigrant work visa program, which grants the selected few the life-changing opportunity to seek professional opportunities in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian-origin techie, who previously worked at Microsoft, recently confessed on social media that he was rejected from the H-1B visa lottery twice in the past five years. And yet, Harnoor Singh didn\u2019t let his failures crush the spirits of those still aspiring to make the most of the non-immigrant work visa program, which grants the selected few the life-changing opportunity to seek professional opportunities in the United States.<\/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-1004509","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\/1004509","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=1004509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004509\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}