{"id":978754,"date":"2025-12-05T12:02:47","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=978754"},"modified":"2025-12-05T12:02:47","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:32:47","slug":"social-media-vetting-rule-sparks-panic-among-h-1b-families-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/05\/social-media-vetting-rule-sparks-panic-among-h-1b-families-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media vetting rule sparks panic among H-1B families in US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A new US state department rule requiring all H-1B workers and their H-4 dependants to make their social media accounts public for visa vetting has triggered deep anxiety among Indian families, who form the largest segment of America&#8217;s high-skilled migrant workforce. Indians account for more than 70% of all H-1B approvals and nearly 90% of H-4 Employment Authorisation Document (EAD) holders \u2014 spouses who have built careers in the US through work permits.<\/p>\n<p>Satire may invite scrutiny<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyderabad: A new US state department rule requiring all H-1B workers and their H-4 dependants to make their social media accounts public for visa vetting has triggered deep anxiety among Indian families, who form the largest segment of America&#8217;s high-skilled migrant workforce. Indians account for more than 70% of all H-1B approvals and nearly 90% of H-4 Employment Authorisation Document (EAD) holders \u2014 spouses who have built careers in the US through work permits. Satire may invite scrutiny<\/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-978754","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\/978754","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=978754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}