{"id":979712,"date":"2025-12-11T10:32:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979712"},"modified":"2025-12-11T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T05:53:36","slug":"humiliation-ritual-for-indians-outrage-over-us-postponing-h-1b-interviews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/humiliation-ritual-for-indians-outrage-over-us-postponing-h-1b-interviews\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Humiliation ritual for Indians\u2019: Outrage over US postponing H-1B interviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many Indians heading home for the holidays now find themselves stuck in a very stressful visa situation. The US State Department postponed thousands of H-1B visa interviews in India, leaving workers confused, angry, and searching for answers. On social media, users slammed the sudden delays, describing them as \u201cperformative cruelty\u201d and even a \u201chumiliation ritual,\u201d with many saying the visa system now feels broken for both applicants and new graduates in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many Indians heading home for the holidays now find themselves stuck in a very stressful visa situation. The US State Department postponed thousands of H-1B visa interviews in India, leaving workers confused, angry, and searching for answers. On social media, users slammed the sudden delays, describing them as \u201cperformative cruelty\u201d and even a \u201chumiliation ritual,\u201d with many saying the visa system now feels broken for both applicants and new graduates in the US.<\/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":[61,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-979712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979712","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=979712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979712\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}