{"id":979806,"date":"2025-12-11T12:17:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T06:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=979806"},"modified":"2025-12-11T13:10:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T07:40:45","slug":"social-media-checks-hit-indian-h-1b-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/11\/social-media-checks-hit-indian-h-1b-applicants\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media checks hit Indian H-1B applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in India confirmed on Tuesday that a number of visa appointments in India had been rescheduled due to \u201cresource availability\u201d amid increased scrutiny of all H-1B visa applicants and dependents on H-4 visas through a new rule that mandates a review of their social media profiles.<\/p>\n<p>The US Embassy clarified that all changes would be communicated to the applicants directly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Embassy in India confirmed on Tuesday that a number of visa appointments in India had been rescheduled due to \u201cresource availability\u201d amid increased scrutiny of all H-1B visa applicants and dependents on H-4 visas through a new rule that mandates a review of their social media profiles. The US Embassy clarified that all changes would be communicated to the applicants directly.<\/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-979806","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\/979806","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=979806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/979806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=979806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=979806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=979806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}