{"id":1025031,"date":"2026-07-30T12:04:04","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T06:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1025031"},"modified":"2026-07-30T13:19:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T07:49:48","slug":"h-1b-holders-at-risk-of-deportation-as-uscis-terminates-alternative-visa-route-leaving-now-would-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/30\/h-1b-holders-at-risk-of-deportation-as-uscis-terminates-alternative-visa-route-leaving-now-would-be\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B holders at risk of deportation as USCIS terminates alternative visa route, \u2018Leaving now would be\u2026\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you lose your H-1B employment in the United States, you are granted a period of 60 days to secure a new position. If this timeframe elapse without a new employer submitting a transfer application, many people who have been laid off from their visa jobs typically opt to transition to a B-2 tourist visa, allowing them additional time to continue their job search. However, this alternative solution is now facing significant challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration authorities are progressively denying the change of status from H-1B to B-2, placing skilled workers in a difficult situation that, for many people, culminates in a return flight to their home country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you lose your H-1B employment in the United States, you are granted a period of 60 days to secure a new position. If this timeframe elapse without a new employer submitting a transfer application, many people who have been laid off from their visa jobs typically opt to transition to a B-2 tourist visa, allowing them additional time to continue their job search. However, this alternative solution is now facing significant challenges. Immigration authorities are progressively denying the change of status from H-1B to B-2, placing skilled workers in a difficult situation that, for many people, culminates in a [&hellip;]<\/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-1025031","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\/1025031","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=1025031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1025032,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025031\/revisions\/1025032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}