{"id":1048536,"date":"2026-11-11T07:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:28:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1048536"},"modified":"2026-11-11T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T02:43:18","slug":"h-1b-visas-in-focus-ibm-to-end-green-card-sponsorship-for-roles-in-biggest-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/11\/11\/h-1b-visas-in-focus-ibm-to-end-green-card-sponsorship-for-roles-in-biggest-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visas in focus: IBM to end green card sponsorship for roles in biggest unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>International Business Machines Corp. is ending immigration sponsorship for some roles in its largest division following a crackdown by the Trump administration on a visa program that\u2019s been a talent pipeline for the tech industry. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have opted to discontinue visa and green card sponsorship for the majority of such roles in IBM Consulting,\u201d an IBM spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>International Business Machines Corp. is ending immigration sponsorship for some roles in its largest division following a crackdown by the Trump administration on a visa program that\u2019s been a talent pipeline for the tech industry. \u201cWe have opted to discontinue visa and green card sponsorship for the majority of such roles in IBM Consulting,\u201d an IBM spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1048536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048536","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1048558,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048536\/revisions\/1048558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}