{"id":897456,"date":"2025-01-18T11:25:50","date_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=897456"},"modified":"2025-01-18T11:25:50","modified_gmt":"2025-01-18T05:55:50","slug":"new-h-1b-and-h-2-visa-rules-come-into-effect-starting-today-january-17-changes-and-all-other-details","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/01\/18\/new-h-1b-and-h-2-visa-rules-come-into-effect-starting-today-january-17-changes-and-all-other-details\/","title":{"rendered":"New H-1B and H-2 visa rules come into effect starting today, January 17: Changes and all other details"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented new rules to modernize and improve the H-1B and H-2 nonimmigrant visa programs, effective Friday, January 17, 2025. These changes were published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2024. The H-1B program allows American companies to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialty occupations requiring highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor&#8217;s degree (or equivalent). The new H-1B rules aim to streamline the approval process, increases employer flexibility in retaining talent, and enhances program integrity and oversight. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) implemented new rules to modernize and improve the H-1B and H-2 nonimmigrant visa programs, effective Friday, January 17, 2025. These changes were published in the Federal Register on December 18, 2024. The H-1B program allows American companies to temporarily hire foreign workers in specialty occupations requiring highly specialized knowledge and at least a bachelor&#8217;s degree (or equivalent). The new H-1B rules aim to streamline the approval process, increases employer flexibility in retaining talent, and enhances program integrity and oversight.<\/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-897456","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\/897456","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=897456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}