{"id":1029876,"date":"2026-08-19T11:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029876"},"modified":"2026-08-19T11:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T06:00:17","slug":"h-1b-f-1-visa-alert-uscis-to-deny-these-forms-september-15-heres-what-indian-applicants-must-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/h-1b-f-1-visa-alert-uscis-to-deny-these-forms-september-15-heres-what-indian-applicants-must-know\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B, F-1 visa alert: USCIS to deny these forms September 15, here&#8217;s what Indian applicants must know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from September 15, 2026, significant changes will be implemented to two frequently used US immigration forms, and USCIS has made it abundantly clear that no grace period will be allowed. Submitting the outdated version on or after this date will result in an outright rejection of your application.<\/p>\n<p>The forms under discussion are Form I-539, which is used for extending or altering nonimmigrant status, and Form I-765, the application for employment authorization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting from September 15, 2026, significant changes will be implemented to two frequently used US immigration forms, and USCIS has made it abundantly clear that no grace period will be allowed. Submitting the outdated version on or after this date will result in an outright rejection of your application. The forms under discussion are Form I-539, which is used for extending or altering nonimmigrant status, and Form I-765, the application for employment authorization.<\/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-1029876","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\/1029876","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=1029876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029877,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029876\/revisions\/1029877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}