{"id":976519,"date":"2025-11-25T12:29:52","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=976519"},"modified":"2025-11-25T12:29:52","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T06:59:52","slug":"h-1b-employee-laid-off-within-a-month-after-returning-to-us-heres-plan-b-every-indian-worker-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/25\/h-1b-employee-laid-off-within-a-month-after-returning-to-us-heres-plan-b-every-indian-worker-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B employee laid off within a month after returning to US: Here&#8217;s \u2018plan B\u2019 every Indian worker needs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa holders are skilled professionals employed in the United States. However, they are not entirely protected from layoffs and sudden job loss can lead to immediate legal ramifications, including inquiries regarding the legality of their residency.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a 29-year-old H-1B employee shared on Reddit his experience of being laid off less than a month after his return to the US. \u201cLaid off within a month of returning to the US,\u201d said the anonymous individual, stressing that he had been with the same company since earning his master\u2019s degree in 2021. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa holders are skilled professionals employed in the United States. However, they are not entirely protected from layoffs and sudden job loss can lead to immediate legal ramifications, including inquiries regarding the legality of their residency. Recently, a 29-year-old H-1B employee shared on Reddit his experience of being laid off less than a month after his return to the US. \u201cLaid off within a month of returning to the US,\u201d said the anonymous individual, stressing that he had been with the same company since earning his master\u2019s degree in 2021.<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976519","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=976519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}