{"id":988868,"date":"2026-01-30T09:56:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988868"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:42:07","slug":"the-great-h-1b-lockout-pay-indias-tax-or-fire-workers-us-firms-in-a-bind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/the-great-h-1b-lockout-pay-indias-tax-or-fire-workers-us-firms-in-a-bind\/","title":{"rendered":"The great H-1B lockout: Pay India\u2019s tax or fire workers\u2014US firms in a bind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of H-1B workers who travelled to India are now stuck there for months because of long visa interview delays. What began as a routine trip home has turned into a major headache\u2014not just for workers, but also for their US employers. Companies are now struggling with a tough question: should they allow these employees to work remotely from India for a long period, or risk losing them altogether? Either option comes with serious tax and legal consequences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of H-1B workers who travelled to India are now stuck there for months because of long visa interview delays. What began as a routine trip home has turned into a major headache\u2014not just for workers, but also for their US employers. Companies are now struggling with a tough question: should they allow these employees to work remotely from India for a long period, or risk losing them altogether? Either option comes with serious tax and legal 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-988868","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\/988868","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=988868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}