{"id":1032259,"date":"2026-08-31T12:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032259"},"modified":"2026-08-31T12:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T06:47:07","slug":"h-1b-dependent-spouses-may-lose-us-work-permits-how-trumps-latest-move-could-affect-family-incomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/31\/h-1b-dependent-spouses-may-lose-us-work-permits-how-trumps-latest-move-could-affect-family-incomes\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B dependent spouses may lose US work permits; how Trump\u2019s latest move could affect family incomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has revived a proposal that could remove employment authorization for certain H-4 spouses of H-1B visa holders, potentially affecting households that rely on the dependent spouse\u2019s income.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security has placed a proposal titled \u201cRemoving H-4 Dependent Spouses from the Classes of Noncitizens Eligible for Employment Authorization\u201d on its regulatory agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has revived a proposal that could remove employment authorization for certain H-4 spouses of H-1B visa holders, potentially affecting households that rely on the dependent spouse\u2019s income. The Department of Homeland Security has placed a proposal titled \u201cRemoving H-4 Dependent Spouses from the Classes of Noncitizens Eligible for Employment Authorization\u201d on its regulatory agenda.<\/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-1032259","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\/1032259","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=1032259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032260,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032259\/revisions\/1032260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}