{"id":937408,"date":"2025-06-09T11:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=937408"},"modified":"2025-06-09T11:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T06:17:05","slug":"amid-h-1b-uncertainty-and-layoffs-immigration-experts-say-demand-for-l-1-and-o-1-visas-has-gone-up-as-they-do-not-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/09\/amid-h-1b-uncertainty-and-layoffs-immigration-experts-say-demand-for-l-1-and-o-1-visas-has-gone-up-as-they-do-not-have\/","title":{"rendered":"Amid H-1B uncertainty and layoffs, immigration experts say demand for L-1 and O-1 visas has gone up as they do not have &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian professionals and their employers are increasingly exploring alternatives to H-1B visas, such as L-1 and O-1 visas, amid stricter scrutiny of H-1B applications and ongoing tech layoffs in the US, according to immigration experts cited by the Economic Times. Demand for EB-5 immigrant investor visas has also surged, with a 50% increase since January 2025, noted Sukanya Raman, country head &#8211; India &amp; GCC practice team at Davies &amp; Associates LLC. \u201cThese are in current status for Indian nationals, meaning visas are available, and they can receive authorization and travel documents in 3-6 months,\u201d she told ET, highlighting their appeal for Indian families on H-1B visas whose children are nearing 21 and at risk of aging out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian professionals and their employers are increasingly exploring alternatives to H-1B visas, such as L-1 and O-1 visas, amid stricter scrutiny of H-1B applications and ongoing tech layoffs in the US, according to immigration experts cited by the Economic Times. Demand for EB-5 immigrant investor visas has also surged, with a 50% increase since January 2025, noted Sukanya Raman, country head &#8211; India &amp; GCC practice team at Davies &amp; Associates LLC. \u201cThese are in current status for Indian nationals, meaning visas are available, and they can receive authorization and travel documents in 3-6 months,\u201d she told ET, highlighting their [&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-937408","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\/937408","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=937408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}