{"id":1009655,"date":"2026-05-23T11:13:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1009655"},"modified":"2026-05-23T11:13:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T05:43:17","slug":"h-1b-visa-registrations-see-38-drop-green-card-petitions-next-us-tightens-rules-for-seeking-permanent-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/23\/h-1b-visa-registrations-see-38-drop-green-card-petitions-next-us-tightens-rules-for-seeking-permanent-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa registrations see 38% drop; Green Card petitions next? US tightens rules for seeking permanent residency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The registrations for H-1B visas in fiscal year 2027 declined by 38 per cent, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stated on Thursday (May 21). It said 343,981 registrations were made in 2026, which plummeted to 211,600 in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This data is a clear sign that the days of abusing the program with mass, low-wage registrations are over, and that the program is better serving its intended purpose of attracting highly skilled foreign workers and protecting the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of American workers,&#8221; the USCIS posted on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The registrations for H-1B visas in fiscal year 2027 declined by 38 per cent, the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) stated on Thursday (May 21). It said 343,981 registrations were made in 2026, which plummeted to 211,600 in 2027. &#8220;This data is a clear sign that the days of abusing the program with mass, low-wage registrations are over, and that the program is better serving its intended purpose of attracting highly skilled foreign workers and protecting the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities of American workers,&#8221; the USCIS posted on X.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1009655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009655","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=1009655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1009656,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009655\/revisions\/1009656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1009655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1009655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1009655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}