{"id":948789,"date":"2025-07-22T12:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=948789"},"modified":"2025-07-22T12:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T06:39:37","slug":"laid-off-h-1b-grad-counts-the-days-on-borrowed-time-heres-more-to-his-ordeals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/22\/laid-off-h-1b-grad-counts-the-days-on-borrowed-time-heres-more-to-his-ordeals\/","title":{"rendered":"Laid-off H-1B grad counts the days on borrowed time. Here&#8217;s more to his ordeals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One recent graduate, after securing his first job on an H-1B visa, was laid off just a few weeks into the role. Now, nearly nine months later, he\u2019s still unemployed and clinging to hope on a temporary visa.<\/p>\n<p>The 2024 data science graduate told M9News that he\u2019s applied to over 300 positions since the layoff, but not a single job offer has come through.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One recent graduate, after securing his first job on an H-1B visa, was laid off just a few weeks into the role. Now, nearly nine months later, he\u2019s still unemployed and clinging to hope on a temporary visa. The 2024 data science graduate told M9News that he\u2019s applied to over 300 positions since the layoff, but not a single job offer has come through.<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-948789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948789","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=948789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/948789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=948789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=948789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=948789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}