{"id":982421,"date":"2025-12-29T10:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982421"},"modified":"2025-12-29T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T05:39:00","slug":"h-1b-sponsorship-alternatives-o-1-l-1-investor-visas-emerge-as-backup-companies-spend-outside-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/29\/h-1b-sponsorship-alternatives-o-1-l-1-investor-visas-emerge-as-backup-companies-spend-outside-us\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B sponsorship alternatives: O-1, L-1, investor visas emerge as backup; companies \u2018spend outside US\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on December 23 that new changes to the existing H-1B visa program would entirely do away with its random lottery selection, making way for the new wage-weighted selection. Set to go into effect on February 27, 2026, this policy revision will \u201cprioritise the allocation of nonimmigrant visa to higher-skilled and higher-paid aliens to better protect the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities for American workers,\u201d as per the official DHS website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced on December 23 that new changes to the existing H-1B visa program would entirely do away with its random lottery selection, making way for the new wage-weighted selection. Set to go into effect on February 27, 2026, this policy revision will \u201cprioritise the allocation of nonimmigrant visa to higher-skilled and higher-paid aliens to better protect the wages, working conditions, and job opportunities for American workers,\u201d as per the official DHS website.<\/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":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982421","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=982421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982421\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}