{"id":1016473,"date":"2026-06-23T11:39:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1016473"},"modified":"2026-06-23T11:39:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T06:09:17","slug":"h-1b-visa-news-why-employers-continue-to-face-hardships-despite-almost-98-annual-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/23\/h-1b-visa-news-why-employers-continue-to-face-hardships-despite-almost-98-annual-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa news: Why employers continue to face hardships despite almost 98% annual approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US employers are still getting most H-1B petitions approved, but the climate around the visa program is getting tougher. New reporting from The American Bazaar says the overall H-1B approval rate remains close to 98%.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration attorney Kevin J. Andrews told the outlet, \u201cThe H-1B approval rate for FY2025 is steady at about 98 per cent, but the operating environment for FY2026 looks materially harder. The friction has moved from adjudication to architecture.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US employers are still getting most H-1B petitions approved, but the climate around the visa program is getting tougher. New reporting from The American Bazaar says the overall H-1B approval rate remains close to 98%. Immigration attorney Kevin J. Andrews told the outlet, \u201cThe H-1B approval rate for FY2025 is steady at about 98 per cent, but the operating environment for FY2026 looks materially harder. The friction has moved from adjudication to architecture.\u201d<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1016473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016473","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=1016473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1016474,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016473\/revisions\/1016474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}