{"id":980039,"date":"2025-12-12T11:53:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980039"},"modified":"2025-12-12T11:53:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T06:23:09","slug":"stranded-h-1b-worker-urges-fellow-indians-in-us-to-avoid-booking-interview-slots-amid-visa-chaos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/12\/stranded-h-1b-worker-urges-fellow-indians-in-us-to-avoid-booking-interview-slots-amid-visa-chaos\/","title":{"rendered":"Stranded H-1B worker urges fellow Indians in US to avoid booking interview slots amid visa chaos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A stranded Indian H-1B visa holder has appealed to fellow Indians in the US to avoid booking or to cancel January and February visa appointments, as hundreds of workers remain stuck in India following widespread disruptions at US consulates.<\/p>\n<p>The Reddit post, titled \u201cHumble request from a stranded Indian to fellow Indians in USA,\u201d was shared after the US State Department cancelled most December visa interviews and pushed many appointments as far out as March 2026. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stranded Indian H-1B visa holder has appealed to fellow Indians in the US to avoid booking or to cancel January and February visa appointments, as hundreds of workers remain stuck in India following widespread disruptions at US consulates. The Reddit post, titled \u201cHumble request from a stranded Indian to fellow Indians in USA,\u201d was shared after the US State Department cancelled most December visa interviews and pushed many appointments as far out as March 2026.<\/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-980039","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\/980039","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=980039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}