{"id":1043624,"date":"2026-10-15T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1043624"},"modified":"2026-10-15T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T05:18:07","slug":"h-1b-l-1-visa-extensions-may-face-greater-scrutiny-as-uscis-seeks-to-end-deference-to-earlier-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/10\/15\/h-1b-l-1-visa-extensions-may-face-greater-scrutiny-as-uscis-seeks-to-end-deference-to-earlier-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B, L-1 visa extensions may face greater scrutiny as USCIS seeks to end deference to earlier approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has proposed scrapping a rule that requires US immigration authorities to generally defer to their previous eligibility decisions when adjudicating certain nonimmigrant worker petition extensions, potentially increasing scrutiny of H-1B applications and other employment-based immigration requests.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), published a proposed rule on October 14 seeking to remove Section 8 CFR 214.1(c)(5), which requires immigration officers to generally respect earlier eligibility determinations when the same parties and underlying facts are involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration has proposed scrapping a rule that requires US immigration authorities to generally defer to their previous eligibility decisions when adjudicating certain nonimmigrant worker petition extensions, potentially increasing scrutiny of H-1B applications and other employment-based immigration requests. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), through US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), published a proposed rule on October 14 seeking to remove Section 8 CFR 214.1(c)(5), which requires immigration officers to generally respect earlier eligibility determinations when the same parties and underlying facts are involved.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043624","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=1043624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1043625,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043624\/revisions\/1043625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}