{"id":988280,"date":"2026-01-28T12:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988280"},"modified":"2026-01-28T12:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T06:40:08","slug":"h-1b-visa-interview-dates-deferred-until-2027-why-the-delay-and-what-it-means-for-indian-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/28\/h-1b-visa-interview-dates-deferred-until-2027-why-the-delay-and-what-it-means-for-indian-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa interview dates deferred until 2027: Why the delay and what it means for Indian professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several reports claimed that the US consulates in India have extended H-1B visa stamping interview appointments until 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Visa offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata reportedly have no visa interview slots available till next year, according to reports in NDTV, Moneycontrol and Times of India, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several reports claimed that the US consulates in India have extended H-1B visa stamping interview appointments until 2027. Visa offices in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata reportedly have no visa interview slots available till next year, according to reports in NDTV, Moneycontrol and Times of India, among others.<\/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-988280","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\/988280","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=988280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}