{"id":984175,"date":"2026-01-08T11:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=984175"},"modified":"2026-01-08T11:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T06:00:37","slug":"months-of-waiting-with-221g-slip-not-unusual-immigration-attorney-explains-h-1b-stamping-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/08\/months-of-waiting-with-221g-slip-not-unusual-immigration-attorney-explains-h-1b-stamping-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Months of waiting with 221(g) slip not unusual: Immigration attorney explains H-1B stamping delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration attorney Steven Brown said getting a 221(g)notice after the consular interview has become a new normal for H-1b professionals who are now stuck in their home countries without knowing when their application will come out of &#8220;administrative processing&#8221; and when they can come back to their job in the US. The attorney explained that this 221(g) slip does not mean a refusal; it means the State Department is saying: &#8216;We are not done with your case yet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After the department started social media vetting since December 15, 2025, almost all applicants in India said they were given the 221(g) slip and their applications were approved in a day or two. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immigration attorney Steven Brown said getting a 221(g)notice after the consular interview has become a new normal for H-1b professionals who are now stuck in their home countries without knowing when their application will come out of &#8220;administrative processing&#8221; and when they can come back to their job in the US. The attorney explained that this 221(g) slip does not mean a refusal; it means the State Department is saying: &#8216;We are not done with your case yet.&#8221; After the department started social media vetting since December 15, 2025, almost all applicants in India said they were given the 221(g) [&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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984175","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\/984175","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=984175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}