{"id":985908,"date":"2026-01-16T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T04:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=985908"},"modified":"2026-01-17T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T02:28:35","slug":"us-visa-shift-o-1-issuance-reaches-all-time-high-as-foreign-workers-seek-alternatives-to-expensive-h-1b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/16\/us-visa-shift-o-1-issuance-reaches-all-time-high-as-foreign-workers-seek-alternatives-to-expensive-h-1b\/","title":{"rendered":"US Visa Shift: O-1 issuance reaches all-time high as foreign workers seek alternatives to expensive H-1B"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A clear trend in the hiring of foreign workers is emerging in the US job market. H-1B filings are seen to be falling sharply from large IT services firms. At the same time, O-1 visa approvals have reached nearly 39,000, an all-time high as O-1 visas continue to record over 90% approval rates across administrations. <\/p>\n<p>H-1B visas have become more expensive and competitive for foreign skilled workers, who are increasingly opting for other visa alternatives. Skilled foreign workers are considering shifting from H-1B visas to other options, such as O-1 visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A clear trend in the hiring of foreign workers is emerging in the US job market. H-1B filings are seen to be falling sharply from large IT services firms. At the same time, O-1 visa approvals have reached nearly 39,000, an all-time high as O-1 visas continue to record over 90% approval rates across administrations. H-1B visas have become more expensive and competitive for foreign skilled workers, who are increasingly opting for other visa alternatives. Skilled foreign workers are considering shifting from H-1B visas to other options, such as O-1 visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985908","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=985908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=985908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=985908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=985908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}