{"id":1023913,"date":"2026-07-27T08:10:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1023913"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:11:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T02:41:21","slug":"h-1b-crackdown-us-blacklists-four-companies-for-willful-violations-blocks-new-visa-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/27\/h-1b-crackdown-us-blacklists-four-companies-for-willful-violations-blocks-new-visa-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B crackdown: US blacklists four companies for \u2018Willful Violations,\u2019 blocks new visa petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor has barred four companies from taking part in the H-1B skilled-worker visa programme after finding that they were \u201cwillful violators\u201d of federal immigration and labour rules. <\/p>\n<p>The updated list is maintained by the department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division, or WHD. It took effect on June 1, 2026, and was last updated on May 29, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>The list names employers that were found to have broken promises they made while sponsoring foreign workers. These promises, known as attestations, cover issues such as wages, working conditions and the accuracy of information given to the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor has barred four companies from taking part in the H-1B skilled-worker visa programme after finding that they were \u201cwillful violators\u201d of federal immigration and labour rules. The updated list is maintained by the department\u2019s Wage and Hour Division, or WHD. It took effect on June 1, 2026, and was last updated on May 29, 2026. The list names employers that were found to have broken promises they made while sponsoring foreign workers. These promises, known as attestations, cover issues such as wages, working conditions and the accuracy of information given to the government.<\/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-1023913","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\/1023913","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=1023913"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1023947,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1023913\/revisions\/1023947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1023913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1023913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1023913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}