{"id":840644,"date":"2024-08-03T09:45:23","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=840644"},"modified":"2024-08-03T10:13:18","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T04:43:18","slug":"h-1b-visa-scam-explained-how-a-congress-leader-played-the-us-visa-lottery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/03\/h-1b-visa-scam-explained-how-a-congress-leader-played-the-us-visa-lottery\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa scam explained: How a Congress leader played the US visa lottery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian politician was implicated in an immigration scam involving the US H-1B visa lottery system. Kandi Srinivasa Reddy, previously a Congress candidate for the Telangana Assembly elections, has been accused of exploiting a loophole in the lottery process by making multiple registrations, according to a report by Bloomberg. <\/p>\n<p>What is the US H-1B visa lottery? <\/p>\n<p>The H-1B is a United States visa that comes under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It allows employers in the US to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations for a specific time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Indian politician was implicated in an immigration scam involving the US H-1B visa lottery system. Kandi Srinivasa Reddy, previously a Congress candidate for the Telangana Assembly elections, has been accused of exploiting a loophole in the lottery process by making multiple registrations, according to a report by Bloomberg. What is the US H-1B visa lottery? The H-1B is a United States visa that comes under the Immigration and Nationality Act. It allows employers in the US to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations for a specific time.<\/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":[37,9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-840644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-business-standard-newspapers","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840644","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=840644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840644\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}