{"id":996338,"date":"2026-03-05T07:55:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996338"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:02:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T02:32:36","slug":"h-1b-workers-hit-by-layoffs-face-60-day-rule-what-laid-off-h-1b-workers-can-do-to-legally-stay-in-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/05\/h-1b-workers-hit-by-layoffs-face-60-day-rule-what-laid-off-h-1b-workers-can-do-to-legally-stay-in-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B workers hit by layoffs face 60-day rule: What laid-off H-1B workers can do to legally stay in the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Layoffs in the United States are on the rise, with several of the country\u2019s leading tech businesses announcing job cuts. Many H-1B visa holders working in such technology and other non-tech companies may find themselves in the soup after losing their jobs. <\/p>\n<p>Aizada Marat, Founder of Alma Immigration, in an X post writes, \u201cFor anyone on an H-1B affected by this, the clock starts immediately \u2013 you have 60 days from your last day of employment to secure a new H-1B employer, or to change to a different immigration status. And if your I-94 expires before the H-1B 60-day grace period window closes, your timeline could be even shorter.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Layoffs in the United States are on the rise, with several of the country\u2019s leading tech businesses announcing job cuts. Many H-1B visa holders working in such technology and other non-tech companies may find themselves in the soup after losing their jobs. Aizada Marat, Founder of Alma Immigration, in an X post writes, \u201cFor anyone on an H-1B affected by this, the clock starts immediately \u2013 you have 60 days from your last day of employment to secure a new H-1B employer, or to change to a different immigration status. And if your I-94 expires before the H-1B 60-day grace [&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-996338","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\/996338","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=996338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}