{"id":980202,"date":"2025-12-13T09:10:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T03:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980202"},"modified":"2025-12-13T09:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T04:15:18","slug":"h-1b-visa-interviews-for-indians-deferred-as-us-tightens-social-media-vetting-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/13\/h-1b-visa-interviews-for-indians-deferred-as-us-tightens-social-media-vetting-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa interviews for Indians deferred as US tightens social media vetting rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The processing of H-1B visas for thousands of Indian applicants has hit a major roadblock after the United States introduced stricter social media screening requirements. A wave of interview appointments has now been pushed into 2026, creating uncertainty for professionals and families planning to relocate for work. On Tuesday night, the US Embassy in India issued a fresh advisory informing applicants that their previously confirmed appointment dates may no longer stand. The embassy said that anyone who has received a reschedule notification must appear only on the new date assigned to them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The processing of H-1B visas for thousands of Indian applicants has hit a major roadblock after the United States introduced stricter social media screening requirements. A wave of interview appointments has now been pushed into 2026, creating uncertainty for professionals and families planning to relocate for work. On Tuesday night, the US Embassy in India issued a fresh advisory informing applicants that their previously confirmed appointment dates may no longer stand. The embassy said that anyone who has received a reschedule notification must appear only on the new date assigned to them.<\/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":[81,4,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980202","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=980202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}