{"id":1039450,"date":"2026-09-29T11:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:37:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1039450"},"modified":"2026-09-29T11:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T05:37:04","slug":"department-of-labor-ig-anthony-desposito-hints-at-total-shutdown-of-h-1b-via-program-says-365-days-from-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/29\/department-of-labor-ig-anthony-desposito-hints-at-total-shutdown-of-h-1b-via-program-says-365-days-from-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Department of Labor IG Anthony D&#8217;Esposito hints at &#8216;total shutdown&#8217; of H-1B via program; says: 365 days from now &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony D\u2019Esposito, Inspector General at the Department of Labor, has hinted at a potential \u201ctotal shutdown\u201d of the H\u20111B visa program within the next year. Speaking in Washington, D\u2019Esposito said investigators are building a sweeping case against fraud in the foreign labor system, adding: \u201cWe have handcuffs ready\u2026 We are building a case. I think that the efforts and the focus that you see from the White House and from this administration is telling a story. We are laying out the case very vividly to the American people. l think that the foreign labor visa program is going to look very different 365 days from now than it does today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come amid an aggressive push by the Trump administration to tighten oversight of the H\u20111B program, which allows U.S. employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthony D\u2019Esposito, Inspector General at the Department of Labor, has hinted at a potential \u201ctotal shutdown\u201d of the H\u20111B visa program within the next year. Speaking in Washington, D\u2019Esposito said investigators are building a sweeping case against fraud in the foreign labor system, adding: \u201cWe have handcuffs ready\u2026 We are building a case. I think that the efforts and the focus that you see from the White House and from this administration is telling a story. We are laying out the case very vividly to the American people. l think that the foreign labor visa program is going to look [&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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1039450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039450","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=1039450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039451,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039450\/revisions\/1039451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}