{"id":969297,"date":"2025-10-24T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=969297"},"modified":"2025-10-24T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:50:54","slug":"us-immigration-authoritys-alert-on-h-1b-h-2a-and-h-2b-visas-as-government-shutdown-stretches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/10\/24\/us-immigration-authoritys-alert-on-h-1b-h-2a-and-h-2b-visas-as-government-shutdown-stretches\/","title":{"rendered":"US Immigration Authority&#8217;s &#8216;Alert&#8217; on H-1B, H-2A and H-2B visas as government shutdown stretches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently alerted that it will continue processing visa applications for select candidates despite the ongoing government shutdown. On October 1, 2025, the federal government began a shutdown after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to pass a bill funding government services into October and beyond. In an update, the immigration authority said \u201cWe recognize that the shutdown may affect a petitioner\u2019s ability to get required documentation (such as a labor condition application or a temporary labor certification from the U.S. Department of Labor), which may delay their ability to file Form I-129 or Form I-129CW\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently alerted that it will continue processing visa applications for select candidates despite the ongoing government shutdown. On October 1, 2025, the federal government began a shutdown after Republicans and Democrats failed to reach an agreement to pass a bill funding government services into October and beyond. In an update, the immigration authority said \u201cWe recognize that the shutdown may affect a petitioner\u2019s ability to get required documentation (such as a labor condition application or a temporary labor certification from the U.S. Department of Labor), which may delay their ability to file Form I-129 [&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-969297","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\/969297","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=969297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/969297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=969297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=969297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}