{"id":994795,"date":"2026-02-25T11:51:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T06:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994795"},"modified":"2026-02-25T13:16:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T07:46:33","slug":"h-1b-visa-holders-have-60-days-to-leave-us-or-change-status-after-job-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/25\/h-1b-visa-holders-have-60-days-to-leave-us-or-change-status-after-job-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B visa holders have 60 days to leave US or change status after job loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa holders need to be careful with the rules and regulations that allow them to stay and work legally in the US. According to the H-1B visa rules, if a nonimmigrant worker\u2019s employment terminates, either voluntarily or involuntarily, they must leave the United States within 60 days or when their approved validity period expires, whichever is shorter. <\/p>\n<p>However, the stay can be extended provided they have filed an application for a change of nonimmigrant status or an application for adjustment of status within the 60-day grace period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B visa holders need to be careful with the rules and regulations that allow them to stay and work legally in the US. According to the H-1B visa rules, if a nonimmigrant worker\u2019s employment terminates, either voluntarily or involuntarily, they must leave the United States within 60 days or when their approved validity period expires, whichever is shorter. However, the stay can be extended provided they have filed an application for a change of nonimmigrant status or an application for adjustment of status within the 60-day grace period.<\/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-994795","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\/994795","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=994795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}