{"id":966043,"date":"2025-10-04T10:40:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966043"},"modified":"2025-10-04T10:40:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T05:10:44","slug":"us-h-1b-visa-processing-frozen-how-us-government-shutdown-risks-legal-status-for-indian-and-other-international-tech-workers-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/04\/us-h-1b-visa-processing-frozen-how-us-government-shutdown-risks-legal-status-for-indian-and-other-international-tech-workers-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"US H-1B visa processing frozen: How US government shutdown risks legal status for Indian and other international tech workers in America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US government shutdown that began October 1 has brought H-1B visa processing to a standstill, dealing a severe blow to Indian professionals who represent over 71% of H-1B beneficiaries. The Department of Labor, which issues critical Labour Condition Applications (LCAs) required before any H-1B petition can proceed, has stopped operations due to the funding lapse.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration attorneys warn that no new H-1B visas can be issued, employer transfers cannot be processed, and status changes are impossible unless workers already secured LCA approval before the shutdown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US government shutdown that began October 1 has brought H-1B visa processing to a standstill, dealing a severe blow to Indian professionals who represent over 71% of H-1B beneficiaries. The Department of Labor, which issues critical Labour Condition Applications (LCAs) required before any H-1B petition can proceed, has stopped operations due to the funding lapse. Immigration attorneys warn that no new H-1B visas can be issued, employer transfers cannot be processed, and status changes are impossible unless workers already secured LCA approval before the shutdown.<\/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-966043","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\/966043","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=966043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}