{"id":994998,"date":"2026-02-26T08:19:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T02:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=994998"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:21:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:51:20","slug":"h-1b-approvals-crash-to-5-year-low-in-fy-2025-even-as-visa-filings-hit-3-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/26\/h-1b-approvals-crash-to-5-year-low-in-fy-2025-even-as-visa-filings-hit-3-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B approvals crash to 5-year low in FY 2025, even as visa filings hit 3-year high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B petition filings increased in the US, but approvals decreased significantly for the fiscal year ending September 2025. H-1B visa annual report for fiscal year 2025 submitted to Congress, for the first time, shows the number of petitions filed and approved for the full FY 2025 \u2014 October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025. <\/p>\n<p>Numbers at a Glance <\/p>\n<p>Total petitions submitted increased to 456,725 in FY2025, up from 427,091 in FY2024, representing a 7% rise and the largest filing volume since FY2022, when 474,301 petitions were filed. In 2023, the numbers again fell sharply to 386,584. Despite more filings, approvals revealed a totally different story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H-1B petition filings increased in the US, but approvals decreased significantly for the fiscal year ending September 2025. H-1B visa annual report for fiscal year 2025 submitted to Congress, for the first time, shows the number of petitions filed and approved for the full FY 2025 \u2014 October 1, 2024, to September 30, 2025. Numbers at a Glance Total petitions submitted increased to 456,725 in FY2025, up from 427,091 in FY2024, representing a 7% rise and the largest filing volume since FY2022, when 474,301 petitions were filed. In 2023, the numbers again fell sharply to 386,584. Despite more filings, approvals [&hellip;]<\/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-994998","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\/994998","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=994998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}