{"id":981357,"date":"2025-12-22T09:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981357"},"modified":"2025-12-22T09:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:01:38","slug":"can-indians-work-from-home-while-waiting-for-h-1b-visas-immigration-lawyer-offers-advice-as-us-investor-warns-of-employer-impatience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/22\/can-indians-work-from-home-while-waiting-for-h-1b-visas-immigration-lawyer-offers-advice-as-us-investor-warns-of-employer-impatience\/","title":{"rendered":"Can Indians work from home while waiting for H-1B visas? Immigration lawyer offers advice as US investor warns of employer impatience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indian professionals seeking H-1B visas are facing long delays, with interviews and visa stamping for both new applicants and transfers now being pushed from early 2026 into late 2026. The situation left many workers stuck in India for months, and worse was the career disruption and employer patience that came along with the issue, according to American Ed-tech chair and investor Hany Girgis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat was meant to be a U.S.-based work visa is quietly turning into offshore work by default\u2026 without the cost savings,\u201d Girgis said on X. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian professionals seeking H-1B visas are facing long delays, with interviews and visa stamping for both new applicants and transfers now being pushed from early 2026 into late 2026. The situation left many workers stuck in India for months, and worse was the career disruption and employer patience that came along with the issue, according to American Ed-tech chair and investor Hany Girgis. \u201cWhat was meant to be a U.S.-based work visa is quietly turning into offshore work by default\u2026 without the cost savings,\u201d Girgis said on X.<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981357","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=981357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}