{"id":44988,"date":"2025-09-20T16:57:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:57:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crankers.com\/?p=44988"},"modified":"2025-09-20T16:57:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T16:57:50","slug":"4chan-users-reserve-flights-from-india-to-prevent-h-1b-visa-abuse-before-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/4chan-users-reserve-flights-from-india-to-prevent-h-1b-visa-abuse-before-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"4chan users reserve flights from India to prevent H-1B visa abuse before deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Savvy 4chan users are allegedly reserving flights from India to the United States in hopes to prevent people from abusing the H-1B visa situation and arriving in the country before the deadline.<\/p>\n<p>X user Callum reported on this with a screenshot from 4chan showing a flight in the shopping cart on reserve, possibly preventing someone else from buying the ticket at the time. His <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AkkadSecretary\/status\/1969422406784516124\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">post said<\/a>: &#8220;4chan is reserving flight tickets from India to the US in the checkout stage so no H-1B can use them to get to the US before the deadline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44989\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4chantickets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"533\" height=\"574\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Callum posted an update about one of the 4chan users who made a big reserved purchase: &#8220;Frogposter has single handedly spiked the price by confusing the computer system to $6k for a flight&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-44990\" src=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4chantickets2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"524\" height=\"323\" \/><strong>What is an H-1B Visa?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>An H-1B visa is\u00a0a U.S. temporary (nonimmigrant) visa that allows U.S. employers to hire highly skilled foreign professionals to work in &#8220;specialty occupations,&#8221; which require a bachelor&#8217;s degree or equivalent in a specific field like engineering or technology.\u00a0The visa is initially granted for up to three years and can be extended to a maximum of six years.\u00a0The annual number of H-1B visas is limited by a congressionally set annual cap, with a separate exemption for U.S. advanced degree holders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>When is the H-1B Visa deadline?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>September 21, 2025. A new $100,000 fee must be paid by certain H-1B employees, or they may be denied entry into the U.S. Applications for H-1B status for certain entities like universities and non-profit research organizations are not subject to the lottery and can be filed year-round. It is crucial for employers to prepare all required documentation well in advance of the registration period and filing deadlines to increase the chances of success;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">4chan is reserving flight tickets from India to the US in the checkout stage so no H1B can use them to get to the US before the deadline. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YFeS6Ou0bO\">pic.twitter.com\/YFeS6Ou0bO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Callum (@AkkadSecretary) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkkadSecretary\/status\/1969422406784516124?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 20, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Savvy 4chan users are allegedly reserving flights from India to the United States in hopes to prevent people from abusing the H-1B visa situation and arriving in the country before the deadline. X user Callum reported on this with a screenshot from 4chan showing a flight in the shopping cart on reserve, possibly preventing someone &#8230; <a title=\"4chan users reserve flights from India to prevent H-1B visa abuse before deadline\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/4chan-users-reserve-flights-from-india-to-prevent-h-1b-visa-abuse-before-deadline\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 4chan users reserve flights from India to prevent H-1B visa abuse before deadline\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44991,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}