{"id":983693,"date":"2026-01-06T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=983693"},"modified":"2026-01-06T12:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T06:38:12","slug":"missed-brothers-wedding-in-india-h-4-visa-holder-in-seattle-shares-pain-of-delays-says-she-watched-ceremony-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/06\/missed-brothers-wedding-in-india-h-4-visa-holder-in-seattle-shares-pain-of-delays-says-she-watched-ceremony-online\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Missed brother\u2019s wedding in India\u2019: H-4 visa holder in Seattle shares pain of delays, says she watched ceremony online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prolonged wait for US visa appointments has forced many Indian immigrants to make painful personal choices, including missing major family events.<\/p>\n<p>An H-4 visa holder living in Seattle recalled how visa delays stopped her from travelling to India for her brother\u2019s wedding last month. Instead, she watched the ceremony online from her home in US and congratulated the couple on call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A prolonged wait for US visa appointments has forced many Indian immigrants to make painful personal choices, including missing major family events. An H-4 visa holder living in Seattle recalled how visa delays stopped her from travelling to India for her brother\u2019s wedding last month. Instead, she watched the ceremony online from her home in US and congratulated the couple on call.<\/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-983693","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\/983693","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=983693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/983693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=983693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=983693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=983693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}