{"id":982246,"date":"2025-12-27T08:31:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T03:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982246"},"modified":"2025-12-27T09:56:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T04:26:33","slug":"mea-flags-prolonged-h-1b-visa-delays-raises-concern-with-us-over-hardship-to-indian-families","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/27\/mea-flags-prolonged-h-1b-visa-delays-raises-concern-with-us-over-hardship-to-indian-families\/","title":{"rendered":"MEA flags prolonged H-1B visa delays, raises concern with US over hardship to Indian families"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India has raised concerns with the United States over delays and cancellations in H-1B visa appointments after receiving multiple representations from affected Indian nationals, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndia has received multiple representations from Indian nationals facing delays and difficulties in scheduling or rescheduling US visa appointments. While visa matters fall under the sovereign domain of the issuing country, India has raised these concerns with the US authorities in New Delhi and Washington DC, \u201d MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during his weekly media briefing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India has raised concerns with the United States over delays and cancellations in H-1B visa appointments after receiving multiple representations from affected Indian nationals, the ministry of external affairs (MEA) said on Friday. \u201cIndia has received multiple representations from Indian nationals facing delays and difficulties in scheduling or rescheduling US visa appointments. While visa matters fall under the sovereign domain of the issuing country, India has raised these concerns with the US authorities in New Delhi and Washington DC, \u201d MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said during his weekly media briefing.<\/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":[84,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982246","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=982246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}