{"id":964337,"date":"2025-09-25T11:11:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T05:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=964337"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:55:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T07:25:21","slug":"h-1b-or-simply-not-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/09\/25\/h-1b-or-simply-not-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B or simply-not-to-be"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, Ruchika (not her real name for obvious reasons, as we will see), a 24-year-old, was full of zest and confidence about her future. Suddenly, her \u2018techie-H-1B-greenbacks\u2019 dreams have turned into dust and rubble. She refuses to reveal her name, and insists that we talk on, what is believed to be, a safer, better-encrypted Telegram app. Like many Indians in America, she is not sure if WhatsApp and other calls are being monitored by the US agencies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until recently, Ruchika (not her real name for obvious reasons, as we will see), a 24-year-old, was full of zest and confidence about her future. Suddenly, her \u2018techie-H-1B-greenbacks\u2019 dreams have turned into dust and rubble. She refuses to reveal her name, and insists that we talk on, what is believed to be, a safer, better-encrypted Telegram app. Like many Indians in America, she is not sure if WhatsApp and other calls are being monitored by the US agencies.<\/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":[81,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-964337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964337","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=964337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}