{"id":978520,"date":"2025-12-04T12:28:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T06:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978520"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:51:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T07:21:05","slug":"donald-trump-is-changing-us-h-1b-visa-rules-again-this-time-over-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/04\/donald-trump-is-changing-us-h-1b-visa-rules-again-this-time-over-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is changing US H-1B visa rules again, this time over free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration will increase vetting for H-1B visa applicants with a specific instruction to reject anyone who was involved in \u201ccensorship\u201d of free speech. The instructions were outlined in a US State Department cable sent to US missions abroad on 2 December.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBE ON THE LOOKOUT: APPLICANTS RESPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT IN CENSORSHIP OF AMERICANS,\u201d the cable seen by Bloomberg said. Reuters first reported the policy change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration will increase vetting for H-1B visa applicants with a specific instruction to reject anyone who was involved in \u201ccensorship\u201d of free speech. The instructions were outlined in a US State Department cable sent to US missions abroad on 2 December. \u201cBE ON THE LOOKOUT: APPLICANTS RESPONSIBLE FOR OR COMPLICIT IN CENSORSHIP OF AMERICANS,\u201d the cable seen by Bloomberg said. Reuters first reported the policy change.<\/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-978520","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\/978520","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=978520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}