{"id":985472,"date":"2026-01-14T12:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985472"},"modified":"2026-01-14T12:48:58","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T07:18:58","slug":"h-1b-visa-delays-trap-thousands-of-indian-techies-scheduling-feels-like-minecraft-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/14\/h-1b-visa-delays-trap-thousands-of-indian-techies-scheduling-feels-like-minecraft-game\/","title":{"rendered":"H\u20111B visa delays trap thousands of Indian techies: &#8216;Scheduling feels like Minecraft game&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown on immigration has led to concerns for many in India. H-1B and H-4 holders are now facing unprecedented delays in their appointments as social media vetting began since December 15. This has caused concerns among many.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds, perhaps thousands of high-skilled workers had their appointments canceled between December 15 and 26, which many H-1B holders target because it is holiday season in the US, The Washington Post reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Donald Trump administration&#8217;s crackdown on immigration has led to concerns for many in India. H-1B and H-4 holders are now facing unprecedented delays in their appointments as social media vetting began since December 15. This has caused concerns among many. Hundreds, perhaps thousands of high-skilled workers had their appointments canceled between December 15 and 26, which many H-1B holders target because it is holiday season in the US, The Washington Post reported.<\/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-985472","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\/985472","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=985472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}