Four Indian-Americans arrested in US for H1B visa fraud

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Four Indian-Americans arrested in US for H1B visa fraud
The charges against the four comes amid a crackdown on the H-1B programme by the administration of President Donald Trump, which has taken aim at outsourcers and IT staffing companies, and dramatically increased the rate of rejection for H-1B visas
PTI |Washington |Published: July 3, 2019 10:56:32 am

H-1B visas only for most skilled, highest paid foreign workers

All accused were released on USD 250,000 bond, the Department of Justice said.
Four Indian-American executives from two IT staffing companies have been arrested on charges of fraudulently using the H-1B visa programme to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors, the US Justice Department has said.


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To expedite their visa applications, the defendants caused Procure and Krypto to file H-1B applications falsely asserting that the foreign worker/beneficiaries had already secured positions at Client A, when, in reality, no such positions existed, federal prosecutors alleged.

Instead, they used these fraudulent applications to build a “bench” of job candidates already admitted to the United States, who could then be hired out immediately to client companies without the need to wait through the visa application process, giving the defendants an advantage over their competitors in the staffing industry.

The charges against the four comes amid a crackdown on the H-1B programme by the administration of President Donald Trump, which has taken aim at outsourcers and IT staffing companies, and dramatically increased the rate of rejection for H-1B visas

 

[Bilal9]

Four Indian-Americans arrested in US for H1B visa fraud
The charges against the four comes amid a crackdown on the H-1B programme by the administration of President Donald Trump, which has taken aim at outsourcers and IT staffing companies, and dramatically increased the rate of rejection for H-1B visas
PTI |Washington |Published: July 3, 2019 10:56:32 am

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H-1B visas only for most skilled, highest paid foreign workers

All accused were released on USD 250,000 bond, the Department of Justice said.
Four Indian-American executives from two IT staffing companies have been arrested on charges of fraudulently using the H-1B visa programme to gain an unfair advantage over their competitors, the US Justice Department has said.


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To expedite their visa applications, the defendants caused Procure and Krypto to file H-1B applications falsely asserting that the foreign worker/beneficiaries had already secured positions at Client A, when, in reality, no such positions existed, federal prosecutors alleged.

Instead, they used these fraudulent applications to build a “bench” of job candidates already admitted to the United States, who could then be hired out immediately to client companies without the need to wait through the visa application process, giving the defendants an advantage over their competitors in the staffing industry.

The charges against the four comes amid a crackdown on the H-1B programme by the administration of President Donald Trump, which has taken aim at outsourcers and IT staffing companies, and dramatically increased the rate of rejection for H-1B visas

This is sad. With increasing desperation, these employment fraudsters are getting bolder and bolder by the day.

Problem is - these are still civil cases with fraudsters getting simply deported, and their 10 year sentences mostly commuted to fines. They come back on fraudulent passports and papers on the next flight and the cycle starts again.

US DOJ needs to pursue criminal cases and insist on mandatory incarceration in the US, with no deportation. Unless this is done, this plague will not stop.