{"id":931992,"date":"2025-05-19T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=931992"},"modified":"2025-05-19T11:35:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-19T06:05:08","slug":"maga-supporters-fume-over-h-1b-visas-20000-h-1b-visas-have-been-approved-for-2026-not-says-laura-loomer-steve-bannon-wants-all-to-go-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/05\/19\/maga-supporters-fume-over-h-1b-visas-20000-h-1b-visas-have-been-approved-for-2026-not-says-laura-loomer-steve-bannon-wants-all-to-go-back\/","title":{"rendered":"MAGA supporters fume over H-1B visas: &#8216;20,000 H-1B visas have been approved for 2026, Not &#8230;,&#8217; says Laura Loomer; Steve Bannon wants all to go back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that 120,141 H-1B visa applications have been selected for 2026. This figure marks the lowest number of selections since 2021, a development attributed to various factors including the annual H-1B cap, increased application fees, and potentially a cooling demand amidst economic uncertainties and layoffs in some sectors. &#8220;During the registration period for the FY 2026 H-1B cap, we saw a significant decrease in the total number of registrations submitted and eligible beneficiaries compared to FY 2025, including a decrease in the number of registrations submitted on behalf of beneficiaries with multiple registrations,&#8221; said USCIS in a release on its website.<\/p>\n<p>Despite this multi-year low in selections, the announcement has ignited a fresh wave of debate, particularly among supporters of the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that 120,141 H-1B visa applications have been selected for 2026. This figure marks the lowest number of selections since 2021, a development attributed to various factors including the annual H-1B cap, increased application fees, and potentially a cooling demand amidst economic uncertainties and layoffs in some sectors. &#8220;During the registration period for the FY 2026 H-1B cap, we saw a significant decrease in the total number of registrations submitted and eligible beneficiaries compared to FY 2025, including a decrease in the number of registrations submitted on behalf of beneficiaries with [&hellip;]<\/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-931992","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\/931992","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=931992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/931992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=931992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=931992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=931992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}