{"id":966175,"date":"2025-10-04T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T06:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=966175"},"modified":"2025-10-04T12:32:42","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T07:02:42","slug":"h-1b-visa-program-under-fire-as-us-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-close-loopholes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/04\/h-1b-visa-program-under-fire-as-us-lawmaker-introduces-bill-to-close-loopholes\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa program under fire as US lawmaker introduces bill to close loopholes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B visa program is currently under increased scrutiny, particularly concerning the limitations on the maximum number of visas that foreign workers can apply for.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the US Congress mandates a 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap. However, several H-1B visas get issued outside the cap, well within the rules as set by the Immigration and Nationality Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The H-1B visa program is currently under increased scrutiny, particularly concerning the limitations on the maximum number of visas that foreign workers can apply for. Currently, the US Congress mandates a 65,000 H-1B visa regular cap and the 20,000 H-1B visa U.S. advanced degree exemption, known as the master\u2019s cap. However, several H-1B visas get issued outside the cap, well within the rules as set by the Immigration and Nationality Act.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-966175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966175","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=966175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/966175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=966175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=966175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=966175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}