{"id":991616,"date":"2026-02-12T09:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=991616"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:00:44","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:30:44","slug":"pause-act-aims-to-end-opt-and-reshape-h-1b-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/12\/pause-act-aims-to-end-opt-and-reshape-h-1b-program\/","title":{"rendered":"PAUSE Act aims to end OPT and reshape H-1B program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Chip Roy introduced the PAUSE Act, backed by conservative groups, to halt nearly all US immigration except for tourist visas. The bill calls for ending OPT, revising H-1B rules by stopping status adjustments, and freezing admissions until security conditions are met. <\/p>\n<p>Chip Roy\u2019s PAUSE Act, seeks to freeze all immigration and calls for a revision of the H-1B program, as well as the complete termination of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Representative Chip Roy introduced the PAUSE Act, backed by conservative groups, to halt nearly all US immigration except for tourist visas. The bill calls for ending OPT, revising H-1B rules by stopping status adjustments, and freezing admissions until security conditions are met. Chip Roy\u2019s PAUSE Act, seeks to freeze all immigration and calls for a revision of the H-1B program, as well as the complete termination of the Optional Practical Training (OPT) program.<\/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-991616","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\/991616","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=991616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}