{"id":988625,"date":"2026-01-29T12:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988625"},"modified":"2026-01-29T12:15:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T06:45:05","slug":"texas-puts-a-hex-on-h-1b-visas-after-fraud-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/29\/texas-puts-a-hex-on-h-1b-visas-after-fraud-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas puts a hex on H-1B visas after fraud charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TOI correspondant from Washington: Two years after he led a second trade mission to India seeking closer energy and tech ties, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has dropped a hammer on H-1B visas. Responding to growing MAGA sentiment against all immigration amid allegations of visa fraud, Abbott on Tuesday ordered an immediate freeze on new H-1B petitions by all state agencies and public universities.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter to agency heads, the Texas governor cited \u201crecent reports of abuse,\u201d in the H-1B program \u2014 designed to allow employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations \u2014 to assert that it has been misused to replace qualified Americans with lower-paid labor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOI correspondant from Washington: Two years after he led a second trade mission to India seeking closer energy and tech ties, Texas Governor Greg Abbott has dropped a hammer on H-1B visas. Responding to growing MAGA sentiment against all immigration amid allegations of visa fraud, Abbott on Tuesday ordered an immediate freeze on new H-1B petitions by all state agencies and public universities. In a letter to agency heads, the Texas governor cited \u201crecent reports of abuse,\u201d in the H-1B program \u2014 designed to allow employers to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations \u2014 to assert that it has been [&hellip;]<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-988625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988625","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=988625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}