{"id":1017571,"date":"2026-06-29T12:28:49","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1017571"},"modified":"2026-06-29T13:02:27","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:32:27","slug":"desi-consultancies-the-dark-side-of-h-1b-visa-and-the-american-dream-how-it-impacts-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/29\/desi-consultancies-the-dark-side-of-h-1b-visa-and-the-american-dream-how-it-impacts-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Desi consultancies&#8217;: The dark side of H-1B visa and the American dream, how it impacts Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the H-1B visa program has been the centerpiece of America\u2019s high-skilled immigration system. To its defenders, it is a vital pipeline that brings talented workers from around the world to power the United States\u2019 economy. But to its critics, it is a system rife with abuse\u2014one that can undermine American workers while also trapping foreign workers in exploitative arrangements.<\/p>\n<p>A new book, Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme, takes readers inside one especially shadowy corner of this world: the universe of so-called \u201cdesi consultancies\u201d. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For decades, the H-1B visa program has been the centerpiece of America\u2019s high-skilled immigration system. To its defenders, it is a vital pipeline that brings talented workers from around the world to power the United States\u2019 economy. But to its critics, it is a system rife with abuse\u2014one that can undermine American workers while also trapping foreign workers in exploitative arrangements. A new book, Wild Wild East: Exiled Americans, Enslaved Indians and the Systemic Abuse of the H-1B Visa Programme, takes readers inside one especially shadowy corner of this world: the universe of so-called \u201cdesi consultancies\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-1017571","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\/1017571","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=1017571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1017572,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017571\/revisions\/1017572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1017571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1017571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1017571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}