{"id":1015090,"date":"2026-06-17T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T03:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1015090"},"modified":"2026-06-17T09:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T04:15:09","slug":"indian-h-1b-worker-alleges-he-paid-100000-to-employer-to-keep-visa-expert-points-to-deeper-flaws-in-visa-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/17\/indian-h-1b-worker-alleges-he-paid-100000-to-employer-to-keep-visa-expert-points-to-deeper-flaws-in-visa-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian H-1B worker alleges he paid $100,000 to employer to keep visa; expert points to deeper flaws in visa system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian H-1B worker filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing his employer of forcing him to pay nearly $100,000 to keep his job and legal immigration status in the United States. The worker, Rishikesh Raj Meesala, alleged that his employer and company officials demanded money from him, withheld pay documents and threatened to report him to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when he resisted their demands. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking exclusively to Financial Express Digital, immigration attorney Mithii Jaiswal said the allegations, if proven in court, point to a deeper problem within parts of the H-1B system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian H-1B worker filed a lawsuit in Texas accusing his employer of forcing him to pay nearly $100,000 to keep his job and legal immigration status in the United States. The worker, Rishikesh Raj Meesala, alleged that his employer and company officials demanded money from him, withheld pay documents and threatened to report him to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when he resisted their demands. Speaking exclusively to Financial Express Digital, immigration attorney Mithii Jaiswal said the allegations, if proven in court, point to a deeper problem within parts of the H-1B system.<\/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-1015090","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\/1015090","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=1015090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1015112,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1015090\/revisions\/1015112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1015090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1015090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1015090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}