{"id":994383,"date":"2026-02-23T12:02:32","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994383"},"modified":"2026-02-23T12:02:32","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T06:32:32","slug":"this-is-not-legal-trump-official-says-they-will-look-into-new-h-1b-only-job-advertisement-for-new-york-state-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/23\/this-is-not-legal-trump-official-says-they-will-look-into-new-h-1b-only-job-advertisement-for-new-york-state-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;This is not legal&#8217;: Trump official says they will look into new &#8216;H-1B only&#8217; job advertisement for New York State agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid increased scrutiny of H-1B visa program in the US, a new job posting on LinkedIn by one Prasad DP has reached Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K Dhillon who called it illegal and vowed action against it. &#8220;This is not legal. We will look into this @CivilRights,&#8221; Dhillon said, reacting to the post, which only wanted H-1B candidates. This is not the first time that the Indian-origin Trump official warned about such job postings. Earlier, she spoke against LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm, which invited applications from only H-1B visa holders and strictly barred US citizens from applying. Dhillon at that time said a team of the Civil Rights Division has been working with agencies and the White House on such cases and the department was hiring staff, including lawyers, to crack a whip on such cases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid increased scrutiny of H-1B visa program in the US, a new job posting on LinkedIn by one Prasad DP has reached Assistant Attorney General Harmeet K Dhillon who called it illegal and vowed action against it. &#8220;This is not legal. We will look into this @CivilRights,&#8221; Dhillon said, reacting to the post, which only wanted H-1B candidates. This is not the first time that the Indian-origin Trump official warned about such job postings. Earlier, she spoke against LanceSoft, an IT staffing firm, which invited applications from only H-1B visa holders and strictly barred US citizens from applying. Dhillon at [&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-994383","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\/994383","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=994383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}