{"id":949334,"date":"2025-07-24T08:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=949334"},"modified":"2025-07-24T09:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T03:39:58","slug":"h-1b-selection-shake-up-coming-soon-big-setback-for-low-wage-foreign-workers-and-indian-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/24\/h-1b-selection-shake-up-coming-soon-big-setback-for-low-wage-foreign-workers-and-indian-students\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B selection shake-up coming soon? Big setback for low-wage foreign workers and Indian students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a major development that could transform the future of skilled immigration to the United States, the Trump administration is planning to revive a controversial proposal to revamp the H-1B selection process and replace it with a salary-based selection process. The idea is to prioritise higher-paid professionals over lower-wage applicants. <\/p>\n<p>Forbes report indicates that this Trump-aligned proposal is likely to become official as early as March 2026 for the FY 2027 H-1B cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a major development that could transform the future of skilled immigration to the United States, the Trump administration is planning to revive a controversial proposal to revamp the H-1B selection process and replace it with a salary-based selection process. The idea is to prioritise higher-paid professionals over lower-wage applicants. Forbes report indicates that this Trump-aligned proposal is likely to become official as early as March 2026 for the FY 2027 H-1B cycle.<\/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-949334","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\/949334","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=949334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}