{"id":986926,"date":"2026-01-21T11:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986926"},"modified":"2026-01-21T11:07:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T05:37:29","slug":"h-1b-visa-rules-how-can-you-stay-work-and-extend-status-beyond-standard-six-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/21\/h-1b-visa-rules-how-can-you-stay-work-and-extend-status-beyond-standard-six-years\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa rules: How can you stay, work and extend status beyond standard six years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under US immigration law, the H-1B visa is initially granted for up to three years. This can be extended for another three years, for a total period of six years. But can you extend your H-1B status beyond the standard six-year limit? The answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how you can get your H-1B status extended beyond six years:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under US immigration law, the H-1B visa is initially granted for up to three years. This can be extended for another three years, for a total period of six years. But can you extend your H-1B status beyond the standard six-year limit? The answer is yes. Here&#8217;s how you can get your H-1B status extended beyond six years:<\/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":[57,13,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-live-mint","category-live-mint","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986926","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=986926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986926\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}