{"id":996337,"date":"2026-03-05T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996337"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:35:53","slug":"after-texas-florida-public-universities-ban-h-1b-visas-everything-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/05\/after-texas-florida-public-universities-ban-h-1b-visas-everything-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"After Texas, Florida public universities \u2018ban\u2019 H-1B visas \u2013 Everything you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Public universities in Florida have moved to \u2018ban\u2019 H-1B visas \u2014 weeks after Texas initiated a similar curb for new H1-B applications across the state. The move comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis directed schools last October to crack down on what he described as \u201cvisa abuse\u201d in \u200bhigher education. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cUniversities across the country are importing foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of hiring Americans who are qualified and available to do the job. We will not tolerate H-1B abuse in Florida institutions. That\u2019s why I have directed the Florida Board of Governors to end this practice,\u201d he had said in October last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public universities in Florida have moved to \u2018ban\u2019 H-1B visas \u2014 weeks after Texas initiated a similar curb for new H1-B applications across the state. The move comes after Florida Governor Ron DeSantis directed schools last October to crack down on what he described as \u201cvisa abuse\u201d in \u200bhigher education. \u201cUniversities across the country are importing foreign workers on H-1B visas instead of hiring Americans who are qualified and available to do the job. We will not tolerate H-1B abuse in Florida institutions. That\u2019s why I have directed the Florida Board of Governors to end this practice,\u201d he had said [&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-996337","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\/996337","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=996337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}