{"id":1012727,"date":"2026-06-06T10:06:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1012727"},"modified":"2026-06-06T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T04:49:57","slug":"there-are-no-visa-laws-that-target-india-specifically-us-official-on-h1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/06\/there-are-no-visa-laws-that-target-india-specifically-us-official-on-h1b\/","title":{"rendered":"There are no visa laws that target India specifically: US official on H1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid immigration concerns among Indians in the US on visas such as H1B, a senior American official has said that the country&#8217;s visa laws are not targeting India specifically but are being consistently applied globally across the board. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When it comes to visas, what we had here for a long time with previous administrations going back was inconsistent application of visa law. That is no longer the case. We are consistently applying visa law across the board. I think that will offer clarity,&#8221; State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid immigration concerns among Indians in the US on visas such as H1B, a senior American official has said that the country&#8217;s visa laws are not targeting India specifically but are being consistently applied globally across the board. &#8220;When it comes to visas, what we had here for a long time with previous administrations going back was inconsistent application of visa law. That is no longer the case. We are consistently applying visa law across the board. I think that will offer clarity,&#8221; State Department Spokesperson Tommy Pigott said.<\/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":[93,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1012727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012727","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=1012727"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1012766,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1012727\/revisions\/1012766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1012727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1012727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1012727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}