{"id":1034949,"date":"2026-09-12T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034949"},"modified":"2026-09-12T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T07:11:41","slug":"h-1b-visa-holders-may-lose-60-day-job-loss-grace-period-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/h-1b-visa-holders-may-lose-60-day-job-loss-grace-period-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa holders may lose 60-day job-loss grace period in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has proposed scrapping the 60-day grace period that allows certain foreign workers to remain in the country after losing their jobs, a move that could force them to leave the US soon after their employment ends. <\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) proposal, accessed by The Tribune, seeks to remove the discretionary grace period available to workers in the E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, O-1 and TN visa categories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government has proposed scrapping the 60-day grace period that allows certain foreign workers to remain in the country after losing their jobs, a move that could force them to leave the US soon after their employment ends. The Department of Homeland Security\u2019s (DHS) proposal, accessed by The Tribune, seeks to remove the discretionary grace period available to workers in the E-1, E-2, E-3, H-1B, H-1B1, L-1, O-1 and TN visa categories.<\/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":[93,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034949","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=1034949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034990,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034949\/revisions\/1034990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}