{"id":982699,"date":"2025-12-30T12:24:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T06:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982699"},"modified":"2025-12-30T13:25:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T07:55:00","slug":"h-1b-visa-overhaul-in-2025-who-benefited-from-the-new-green-card-rules-and-who-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/30\/h-1b-visa-overhaul-in-2025-who-benefited-from-the-new-green-card-rules-and-who-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa overhaul in 2025: Who benefited from the new Green Card rules and who didn\u2019t?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s major overhaul of the H-1B visa program and related Green Card rules has reshaped who can work and stay permanently in the US. The latest set of regulations replace the random lottery for H-1B visas with a weighted system that favors highly skilled and higher-paid workers.<\/p>\n<p>US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the changes on December 23, 2025. They take effect February 27, 2026, for the FY 2027 cap season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration\u2019s major overhaul of the H-1B visa program and related Green Card rules has reshaped who can work and stay permanently in the US. The latest set of regulations replace the random lottery for H-1B visas with a weighted system that favors highly skilled and higher-paid workers. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the changes on December 23, 2025. They take effect February 27, 2026, for the FY 2027 cap season.<\/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":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982699","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=982699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}