{"id":944264,"date":"2025-07-07T07:34:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=944264"},"modified":"2025-07-07T07:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T02:14:27","slug":"h-1b-clock-ticking-engineer-searches-for-job-switch-after-employer-delays-green-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/07\/h-1b-clock-ticking-engineer-searches-for-job-switch-after-employer-delays-green-card\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B clock ticking: Engineer searches for job switch after employer delays green card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An H-1B visa holder working in network security engineering has taken to Reddit to share their growing concern: after spending 3.5 years with their current employer in the US, they\u2019re still waiting for their green card process to begin \u2014 and time is running out. <\/p>\n<p>The individual, who has over 13 years of experience in the tech industry, says their employer has refused to initiate the PERM and I-140 process, a critical first step toward obtaining permanent residency. With just 2.5 years left on the H-1B clock and no green card in sight, the worker is now seeking a new employer willing to sponsor them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An H-1B visa holder working in network security engineering has taken to Reddit to share their growing concern: after spending 3.5 years with their current employer in the US, they\u2019re still waiting for their green card process to begin \u2014 and time is running out. The individual, who has over 13 years of experience in the tech industry, says their employer has refused to initiate the PERM and I-140 process, a critical first step toward obtaining permanent residency. With just 2.5 years left on the H-1B clock and no green card in sight, the worker is now seeking a new [&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-944264","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\/944264","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=944264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}