{"id":981163,"date":"2025-12-20T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981163"},"modified":"2025-12-20T09:34:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T04:04:20","slug":"h-1b-visa-us-diplomat-moots-pause-in-new-issuances-wants-stricter-degree-check-amid-fake-employment-letters-bribery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/20\/h-1b-visa-us-diplomat-moots-pause-in-new-issuances-wants-stricter-degree-check-amid-fake-employment-letters-bribery\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa: US diplomat moots pause in new issuances, wants stricter degree check amid \u2018fake employment letters, bribery\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A visa officer highlighted the exploitation of the H-1B visa system, noting that many Indian nationals use fraudulent credentials to enter the US. The officer claimed that the surge in demand for H-1Bs has resulted in increased fraud and the displacement of qualified American workers in IT and STEM fields.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwenty years ago, I served as one of 15 junior visa officers at the US Consulate in Chennai.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visa officer highlighted the exploitation of the H-1B visa system, noting that many Indian nationals use fraudulent credentials to enter the US. The officer claimed that the surge in demand for H-1Bs has resulted in increased fraud and the displacement of qualified American workers in IT and STEM fields. \u201cTwenty years ago, I served as one of 15 junior visa officers at the US Consulate in Chennai.<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981163","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=981163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}