{"id":988518,"date":"2026-01-29T09:19:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T03:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988518"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:48:40","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T04:18:40","slug":"immediately-freeze-new-h-1b-visa-petitions-new-directive-issued-by-governor-of-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/immediately-freeze-new-h-1b-visa-petitions-new-directive-issued-by-governor-of-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions\u2019: New directive issued by Governor of Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The voice against the use of the H-1B visa program, allowing US firms to hire foreign workers, is growing in America. Governor Greg Abbott directed all Texas state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions and launch a review of the current H-1B visa program use. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe economy of Texas should work for the benefit of Texas workers and Texas employers. In light of recent reports of abuse in the federal H-1B visa program, and amid the federal government\u2019s ongoing review of that program to ensure American jobs are going to American workers, I am directing all state agencies to immediately freeze new H-1B visa petitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The voice against the use of the H-1B visa program, allowing US firms to hire foreign workers, is growing in America. Governor Greg Abbott directed all Texas state agencies and universities to freeze new H-1B visa petitions and launch a review of the current H-1B visa program use. \u201cThe economy of Texas should work for the benefit of Texas workers and Texas employers. In light of recent reports of abuse in the federal H-1B visa program, and amid the federal government\u2019s ongoing review of that program to ensure American jobs are going to American workers, I am directing all state [&hellip;]<\/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-988518","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\/988518","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=988518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}