{"id":987688,"date":"2026-01-26T09:18:51","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T03:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=987688"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T04:45:25","slug":"is-freelancing-or-running-side-business-legal-for-h-1b-workers-while-working-in-us-immigration-attorney-answers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/26\/is-freelancing-or-running-side-business-legal-for-h-1b-workers-while-working-in-us-immigration-attorney-answers\/","title":{"rendered":"Is freelancing or running side business legal for H-1B workers while working in US? Immigration attorney answers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of remote work, creator platforms, and global clients, many H-1B visa holders wonder whether freelancing or running a side business is legally permissible while employed in the United States. <\/p>\n<p>According to immigration attorney Julia Sverdloff, founder and shareholder, Sverdloff Law Group, P.C, the answer in most cases is a clear no, and misunderstanding the rules can carry serious consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the rise of remote work, creator platforms, and global clients, many H-1B visa holders wonder whether freelancing or running a side business is legally permissible while employed in the United States. According to immigration attorney Julia Sverdloff, founder and shareholder, Sverdloff Law Group, P.C, the answer in most cases is a clear no, and misunderstanding the rules can carry serious consequences.<\/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-987688","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\/987688","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=987688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}