{"id":980946,"date":"2025-12-19T07:49:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=980946"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:06:46","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T02:36:46","slug":"h-1b-delays-push-lives-into-limbo-as-fresh-social-media-checks-stall-approvals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/19\/h-1b-delays-push-lives-into-limbo-as-fresh-social-media-checks-stall-approvals\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B delays push lives into limbo as fresh social media checks stall approvals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Appointments for H-1B visa applications are being rescheduled to as late as 2027, pushing the wait time to over a year, as scrutiny is stepped up, affecting thousands of submissions. The impact is pronounced for Indians as an estimated three-fourths of all H-1B visas go to people of Indian origin. <\/p>\n<p>Over the last few days, US consular appointments in December have been cancelled and rescheduled to 2026. Now, many who have booked H-1B appointments in early 2026 are seeing their appointments moved to 2027, say immigration experts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Appointments for H-1B visa applications are being rescheduled to as late as 2027, pushing the wait time to over a year, as scrutiny is stepped up, affecting thousands of submissions. The impact is pronounced for Indians as an estimated three-fourths of all H-1B visas go to people of Indian origin. Over the last few days, US consular appointments in December have been cancelled and rescheduled to 2026. Now, many who have booked H-1B appointments in early 2026 are seeing their appointments moved to 2027, say immigration experts.<\/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-980946","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\/980946","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=980946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980946\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}