{"id":985456,"date":"2026-01-14T12:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985456"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:43:06","slug":"bags-of-cash-in-texas-and-mumbai-immigration-attorney-reveals-5-signs-of-h-1b-trafficking-employees-must-be-aware-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/bags-of-cash-in-texas-and-mumbai-immigration-attorney-reveals-5-signs-of-h-1b-trafficking-employees-must-be-aware-of\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Bags of cash in Texas and Mumbai&#8217;: Immigration attorney reveals 5 signs of H-1B trafficking employees must be aware of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration attorney took to social media to make H-1Bs aware of the red flags in their jobs that indicate they are being abused by their recruiters. Attorney Brad Banias cited an example of a client who he said was asked to pay their employer &#8220;in bags of cash in Texas and Mumbai&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Cases of H-1B trafficking are not rare where foreign workers are recruited by employers, staffing firms or middlemen who control their immigration status. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An immigration attorney took to social media to make H-1Bs aware of the red flags in their jobs that indicate they are being abused by their recruiters. Attorney Brad Banias cited an example of a client who he said was asked to pay their employer &#8220;in bags of cash in Texas and Mumbai&#8221;. Cases of H-1B trafficking are not rare where foreign workers are recruited by employers, staffing firms or middlemen who control their immigration status.<\/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-985456","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\/985456","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=985456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}