{"id":950348,"date":"2025-07-28T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:21:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=950348"},"modified":"2025-07-28T08:28:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T02:58:49","slug":"h-1b-visa-renewals-lose-12-month-interview-waiver-advantage-from-september-b1-b2-renewals-without-in-person-interview-to-be-allowed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/07\/28\/h-1b-visa-renewals-lose-12-month-interview-waiver-advantage-from-september-b1-b2-renewals-without-in-person-interview-to-be-allowed\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa renewals lose 12-month interview waiver advantage from September; B1\/B2 renewals without in-person interview to be allowed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those traveling to the US on a B-1, B-2, B1\/B2 visa may not require an in-person interview from September. However, applicants who previously held a visa in the same category that expired less than 12 months before the new application will no longer be eligible for Interview Waiver. <\/p>\n<p>This means, H-1B visa and even F-1 student visa holders will stand to lose the benefit of the Interview Waiver from September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those traveling to the US on a B-1, B-2, B1\/B2 visa may not require an in-person interview from September. However, applicants who previously held a visa in the same category that expired less than 12 months before the new application will no longer be eligible for Interview Waiver. This means, H-1B visa and even F-1 student visa holders will stand to lose the benefit of the Interview Waiver from September.<\/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-950348","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\/950348","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=950348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}