{"id":931114,"date":"2025-05-16T07:27:25","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:57:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931114"},"modified":"2025-05-16T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T02:02:17","slug":"h-1b-visa-2026-registrations-fall-27-as-us-tightens-rules-for-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/16\/h-1b-visa-2026-registrations-fall-27-as-us-tightens-rules-for-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa 2026 registrations fall 27% as US tightens rules for immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The number of H-1B visa registrations for the financial year 2026 dropped sharply compared to the previous year, according to new data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). <\/p>\n<p>USCIS reported a 26.9 per cent decline in eligible registrations \u2014 from 470,342 for FY2025 to 343,981 for FY2026. The total number of individuals seeking new H-1B visas also fell. There were approximately 336,000 eligible unique beneficiaries this year, down from around 423,000 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The number of H-1B visa registrations for the financial year 2026 dropped sharply compared to the previous year, according to new data from the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). USCIS reported a 26.9 per cent decline in eligible registrations \u2014 from 470,342 for FY2025 to 343,981 for FY2026. The total number of individuals seeking new H-1B visas also fell. There were approximately 336,000 eligible unique beneficiaries this year, down from around 423,000 last year.<\/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-931114","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\/931114","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=931114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}