{"id":951787,"date":"2025-08-01T09:07:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=951787"},"modified":"2025-08-01T09:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T03:48:54","slug":"h-1b-visa-program-for-foreign-workers-under-review-uscis-chief-calls-for-harder-us-citizenship-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/01\/h-1b-visa-program-for-foreign-workers-under-review-uscis-chief-calls-for-harder-us-citizenship-test\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa program for foreign workers under review; USCIS chief calls for harder US citizenship test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration intends to overhaul the H-1B visa system for skilled foreign workers, a program at the heart of a debate between immigration hardliners and tech industry leaders, said Joseph Edlow, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in an interview with The New York Times. <\/p>\n<p>Edlow, also said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy and should be changed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration intends to overhaul the H-1B visa system for skilled foreign workers, a program at the heart of a debate between immigration hardliners and tech industry leaders, said Joseph Edlow, the new director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, in an interview with The New York Times. Edlow, also said the test to become a U.S. citizen was too easy and should be changed.<\/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-951787","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\/951787","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=951787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951787\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}