{"id":964161,"date":"2025-09-25T08:36:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964161"},"modified":"2025-09-25T08:53:59","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T03:23:59","slug":"h-1b-indians-on-red-alert-freeze-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/h-1b-indians-on-red-alert-freeze-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B Indians on red alert, freeze travel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indians are continuing to defer travel plans to and from the US, unsettled by the uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s policy on H-1B visas. This is despite the US government clarifying that only fresh H-1B petitions will incur the new $100,000 (about Rs 88 lakh) fee. <\/p>\n<p>Immigration experts said since the scope and implementation of the new policy on non-immigrant visas is still unclear, the prevailing scenario could result in reduced waiting periods for US visa processing for Indians in the short-term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indians are continuing to defer travel plans to and from the US, unsettled by the uncertainty caused by US President Donald Trump&#8217;s policy on H-1B visas. This is despite the US government clarifying that only fresh H-1B petitions will incur the new $100,000 (about Rs 88 lakh) fee. Immigration experts said since the scope and implementation of the new policy on non-immigrant visas is still unclear, the prevailing scenario could result in reduced waiting periods for US visa processing for Indians in the short-term.<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964161","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=964161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}