{"id":122326,"date":"2018-01-09T14:09:28","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=122326"},"modified":"2018-01-09T14:09:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T08:39:28","slug":"relief-h-1b-holders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/relief-h-1b-holders\/","title":{"rendered":"Relief to H-1B holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a relief for Indian techies, US authorities said that the Trump administration is not considering any proposal that would force H-1B visa holders to leave the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The announcement by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) came days after reports emerged that the Trump administration was considering tightening H-1B visa rules that could lead to deportation of 7,50,000 Indians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-122327 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/h1b-620x413.jpg\" alt=\" Relief to H-1B holders \" width=\"620\" height=\"413\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The reports had said it was mulling ending extensions for H-1B holders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The USCIS &#8220;is not considering a regulatory change that would force H-1B visa holders to leave the United States by changing the interpretation of section certain language in Section 104 C of the American Competitiveness in the 21st Century Act (AC21) statute that states that USCIS may grant the extensions,&#8221; an official said. This provides for H-1B extensions beyond the 6-year limit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a relief for Indian techies, US authorities said that the Trump administration is not considering any proposal that would force H-1B visa holders to leave the country. The announcement by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) came days after reports emerged that the Trump administration was considering tightening H-1B visa rules that could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122328,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[62773,62772,62771,35281,37246,23278],"class_list":["post-122326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nri","category-top-stories","tag-h-1b-visa-holders","tag-indian-techies","tag-relief-to-h-1b-holders","tag-trump-administration","tag-us-authorities","tag-us-citizenship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/trump-h1b-759.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}