{"id":994731,"date":"2026-02-25T12:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994731"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:41:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:11:43","slug":"indian-origin-ceo-asked-to-move-to-china-as-he-slams-us-for-fighting-to-keep-h-1b-o-1-visa-holders-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/indian-origin-ceo-asked-to-move-to-china-as-he-slams-us-for-fighting-to-keep-h-1b-o-1-visa-holders-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin CEO asked to &#8216;move to China&#8217; as he slams US for fighting to keep H-1B, O-1 visa holders out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facing racial attack as an Indian in the US is nothing new but this time an Indian-origin CEO has been asked to &#8216;go to China&#8217; and not India as Nitish Kannan criticized the ongoing narrative in the US to shut out everyone, including H-1Bs, O-1 visa holders. Kannan said while the US is fighting to keep everybody out, China is building the most advanced AI in the world. &#8220;Then move to China,&#8221; Kannan was told.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange was part of a long debate as a US ed-tech CEO flagged a video of an Indian explaining how Indians can now go for an O-1 visa as the administration is tightening the noose around the H-1B visa. Hany Girgis contemplated that this is musical chairs for visa categories, as a new channel opens up as soon as one narrows down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing racial attack as an Indian in the US is nothing new but this time an Indian-origin CEO has been asked to &#8216;go to China&#8217; and not India as Nitish Kannan criticized the ongoing narrative in the US to shut out everyone, including H-1Bs, O-1 visa holders. Kannan said while the US is fighting to keep everybody out, China is building the most advanced AI in the world. &#8220;Then move to China,&#8221; Kannan was told. The exchange was part of a long debate as a US ed-tech CEO flagged a video of an Indian explaining how Indians can now go [&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-994731","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\/994731","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=994731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}