{"id":987684,"date":"2026-01-26T09:16:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987684"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:11:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:41:30","slug":"pause-act-us-lawmaker-seeks-scrapping-opt-ending-of-adjustment-of-status-of-h-1b-visa-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/pause-act-us-lawmaker-seeks-scrapping-opt-ending-of-adjustment-of-status-of-h-1b-visa-program\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUSE Act: US lawmaker seeks scrapping OPT, ending of \u2018adjustment of status\u2019 of H-1B visa program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Chip Roy has proposed the PAUSE Act, which seeks to freeze all immigration and calls for a revision of the H-1B program, as well as the complete termination of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. <\/p>\n<p>With support from Immigration Accountability Project, Citizens for Renewing America, and the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, the \u2018Pausing All Admissions Until Security Ensured (PAUSE) Act\u2019 has been introduced by Representative Chip Roy. Chip Roy\u2019s legislation proposes to freeze all immigration to the U.S., except for temporary tourist visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Chip Roy has proposed the PAUSE Act, which seeks to freeze all immigration and calls for a revision of the H-1B program, as well as the complete termination of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program. With support from Immigration Accountability Project, Citizens for Renewing America, and the National Immigration Center for Enforcement, the \u2018Pausing All Admissions Until Security Ensured (PAUSE) Act\u2019 has been introduced by Representative Chip Roy. Chip Roy\u2019s legislation proposes to freeze all immigration to the U.S., except for temporary tourist 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":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987684","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=987684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}