{"id":981982,"date":"2025-12-24T11:14:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=981982"},"modified":"2025-12-24T11:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T05:44:30","slug":"microsoft-sends-more-than-600-word-advisory-on-h-1b-h-4-visas-to-employees-says-return-before-your","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/24\/microsoft-sends-more-than-600-word-advisory-on-h-1b-h-4-visas-to-employees-says-return-before-your\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sends more than 600 word advisory on H-1B\/H-4 visas to employees; says: Return before your &#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has issued an advisory for its employees on H-1B\/H-4 amid the ongoing visa appointment rescheduling and stamping delays. This comes amid new social media screening, said to address the potential \u201cabuse of the H-1B program\u201d. Calling it a \u201crapidly developing situation\u201d, the software giant has issued \u201cpreliminary guidance\u201d for employees who are in the US and are outside the US urging them to &#8220;return before your current visa expire&#8221;. The advisory, sent by Jack Chen, Microsoft&#8217;s associate general counsel for immigration says \u201cRescheduling notifications are concentrated in Chennai and Hyderabad, with some unverified reports from other consulates. New dates are as far out as June 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has issued an advisory for its employees on H-1B\/H-4 amid the ongoing visa appointment rescheduling and stamping delays. This comes amid new social media screening, said to address the potential \u201cabuse of the H-1B program\u201d. Calling it a \u201crapidly developing situation\u201d, the software giant has issued \u201cpreliminary guidance\u201d for employees who are in the US and are outside the US urging them to &#8220;return before your current visa expire&#8221;. The advisory, sent by Jack Chen, Microsoft&#8217;s associate general counsel for immigration says \u201cRescheduling notifications are concentrated in Chennai and Hyderabad, with some unverified reports from other consulates. New dates [&hellip;]<\/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":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-981982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981982","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=981982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}