{"id":963710,"date":"2025-09-23T12:29:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=963710"},"modified":"2025-09-23T12:29:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T06:59:22","slug":"trump-h-1b-proclamation-unsettles-bengali-communities-in-us-amidst-durga-puja-preparations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/23\/trump-h-1b-proclamation-unsettles-bengali-communities-in-us-amidst-durga-puja-preparations\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump H-1B proclamation unsettles Bengali communities in US amidst Durga Puja preparations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: US President Donald Trump&#8217;s H-1B proclamation on the eve of Mahalaya has ignited a storm within Indian and NRI Bengali communities across US cities, particularly among those in the IT sector. Preparations for next weekend&#8217;s Durga Puja (with some communities celebrating the following weekend on Oct 4-5) have been disrupted by the announcement.Although a clarification that the executive order would affect only new H-1B visa applications eased immediate concerns, many Indian Americans in senior positions within California, Tampa, and other US cities remain deeply worried about the proclamation&#8217;s medium and long-term effects. Bengalis represent 12-15% of H-1B visa applicants from India each year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOLKATA: US President Donald Trump&#8217;s H-1B proclamation on the eve of Mahalaya has ignited a storm within Indian and NRI Bengali communities across US cities, particularly among those in the IT sector. Preparations for next weekend&#8217;s Durga Puja (with some communities celebrating the following weekend on Oct 4-5) have been disrupted by the announcement.Although a clarification that the executive order would affect only new H-1B visa applications eased immediate concerns, many Indian Americans in senior positions within California, Tampa, and other US cities remain deeply worried about the proclamation&#8217;s medium and long-term effects. Bengalis represent 12-15% of H-1B visa applicants [&hellip;]<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963710","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=963710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}