A US coverage skilled expressed shock and shock that how little persons are speaking concerning the H-1B visa scenario in India — how troublesome it’s to re-enter the US as soon as you might be out of it and your visa stamping is expired. Sam Peak, a coverage supervisor of Financial Innovation Group, mentioned he obtained a textual content from someone on an H-1B standing who needed to get up at 3.30 am to e-book a consular appointment for August 2027. Peak mentioned this subject stays under-discussed whereas there may be lots of talks on H-1B weighted lottery, wage ranges, Mission Firewall to cease H-1B frauds and many others.At a really primary stage, the White Home made re-entering the US very powerful, Peak noticed.“Wait instances on the Indian consular places of work are often ridiculous, however visa holders might circumvent these backlogs by going to US embassies with much less bureaucratic pressure (like Canada) to resume their visas. The White Home ended this apply final yr. Now, if an Indian H-1B must journey for work or they’ve a household emergency of their residence nation, they will not be capable of seamlessly depart and return,” Peak added.A significant stalemate scenario arose in December 2025 when consular places of work in India rescheduled all H-1B, H-4 visa appointments and deferred them to the center of 2026. All dates have been pushed behind and no new slots opened in India within the final six months. Now experiences are surfacing that some dates are opening up randomly in June, July this yr whereas till just a few months in the past, the scenario was that there was no slot availability in India till 2027.The mass rescheduling of the dates was triggered by the brand new coverage of social media vetting of the visa holders for which the consular places of work decreased the variety of appointments per day. As lots of of H-1B visa holders bought caught in India for indefinite time, their employers have been in a repair with just a few permitting them to work from India.
