{"id":957755,"date":"2025-08-26T12:40:42","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=957755"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:40:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T07:10:42","slug":"us-senator-mike-lee-floats-idea-of-pausing-h1-b-visa-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/08\/26\/us-senator-mike-lee-floats-idea-of-pausing-h1-b-visa-system\/","title":{"rendered":"US senator Mike Lee floats idea of pausing H1-B visa system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Republican Senator Mike Lee has floated the possibility of a pause on issuing H1B visas, a large chunk of which is obtained by highly skilled Indian workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it time to pause H1B visas?\u201d Lee asked on social media platform X in response to a post that claimed a Walmart executive received kickbacks in order to preferentially hire Indian H1B tech workers over Americans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Republican Senator Mike Lee has floated the possibility of a pause on issuing H1B visas, a large chunk of which is obtained by highly skilled Indian workers. \u201cIs it time to pause H1B visas?\u201d Lee asked on social media platform X in response to a post that claimed a Walmart executive received kickbacks in order to preferentially hire Indian H1B tech workers over Americans.<\/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-957755","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\/957755","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=957755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}