{"id":1037948,"date":"2026-09-23T09:02:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1037948"},"modified":"2026-09-23T09:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:47:15","slug":"h-1b-rule-changes-2026-9-things-us-visa-workers-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/23\/h-1b-rule-changes-2026-9-things-us-visa-workers-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B rule changes 2026: 9 things US visa workers need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US H-1B system has undergone several changes in 2026, affecting everything from visa costs and the H-1B lottery to job changes, international travel, green-card processing and H-4 dependents. <\/p>\n<p>The US H-1B visa allows American employers to hire foreign professionals for specialised jobs. For workers already in the US, however, the visa is not simply a one-time approval. They may have to renew their status, change employers, travel abroad, bring dependents to the US or eventually pursue a green card. <\/p>\n<p>However, not every change affects an H-1B worker immediately. Some rules are already in effect, while others are proposals that could still change or face legal challenges.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US H-1B system has undergone several changes in 2026, affecting everything from visa costs and the H-1B lottery to job changes, international travel, green-card processing and H-4 dependents. The US H-1B visa allows American employers to hire foreign professionals for specialised jobs. For workers already in the US, however, the visa is not simply a one-time approval. They may have to renew their status, change employers, travel abroad, bring dependents to the US or eventually pursue a green card. However, not every change affects an H-1B worker immediately. Some rules are already in effect, while others are proposals that [&hellip;]<\/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-1037948","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\/1037948","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=1037948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1037971,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037948\/revisions\/1037971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}