{"id":935919,"date":"2025-06-03T07:30:18","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T02:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=935919"},"modified":"2025-06-03T08:58:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T03:28:41","slug":"laid-off-days-after-h-1b-approval-stem-opt-techie-seeks-help-difficult-position-internet-empathises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/03\/laid-off-days-after-h-1b-approval-stem-opt-techie-seeks-help-difficult-position-internet-empathises\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid off days after H-1B approval, STEM OPT techie seeks help; \u2018difficult position\u2019, internet empathises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, visa policies saw significant tightening, especially impacting F1, B1\/B2, and H-1B visa holders. Against this backdrop, a recent social media post has drawn attention to the struggles of international students trying to navigate the complex U.S. immigration system. The post came from a final-year F1 STEM OPT holder who was laid off in May 2025 but had their H-1B visa selected in this year\u2019s lottery \u2014 their last chance to secure the highly competitive visa. Despite the lottery success, the individual\u2019s employer refused to support or file the H-1B petition, leaving them in a precarious legal status and unsure how to proceed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under President Donald Trump\u2019s administration, visa policies saw significant tightening, especially impacting F1, B1\/B2, and H-1B visa holders. Against this backdrop, a recent social media post has drawn attention to the struggles of international students trying to navigate the complex U.S. immigration system. The post came from a final-year F1 STEM OPT holder who was laid off in May 2025 but had their H-1B visa selected in this year\u2019s lottery \u2014 their last chance to secure the highly competitive visa. Despite the lottery success, the individual\u2019s employer refused to support or file the H-1B petition, leaving them in a precarious [&hellip;]<\/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-935919","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\/935919","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=935919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}