{"id":893469,"date":"2025-01-07T08:41:13","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T03:11:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=893469"},"modified":"2025-01-07T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T03:41:38","slug":"h-1b-visa-final-rule-for-foreign-workers-to-be-implemented-from-january-17-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/07\/h-1b-visa-final-rule-for-foreign-workers-to-be-implemented-from-january-17-2\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa final rule for foreign workers to be implemented from January 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s December 2024 final rule modifies the H-1B program, effective January 17, 2025. Key changes include revised criteria for specialty occupations, clarification on qualifying degree fields, automatic cap-gap extensions for F-1 students, and improved processing times to support foreign workers transitioning to H-1B status. <\/p>\n<p>On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the final rule for the modernization of the H-1B program and other nonimmigrant visas such as the L1- Student Visa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Department of Homeland Security\u2019s December 2024 final rule modifies the H-1B program, effective January 17, 2025. Key changes include revised criteria for specialty occupations, clarification on qualifying degree fields, automatic cap-gap extensions for F-1 students, and improved processing times to support foreign workers transitioning to H-1B status. On December 18, 2024, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the final rule for the modernization of the H-1B program and other nonimmigrant visas such as the L1- Student Visa.<\/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-893469","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\/893469","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=893469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}