Wikileaks: Inside H-1B visa fraud in India

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Source: Computerworld

Over the last two years, there has been increasing criticism of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) paperwork requirements for processing H-1B visas. But a newly released WikiLeaks State Dept. cable helps explain why the USCIS is being aggressive.

... Creating fake companies is commonplace, according to the U.S. Consulate in Chennai, India, in a late 2009 report about visa fraud (via WikiLeaks).

H-1B fraud "is one of the top two visa categories for fraud throughout Mission India. All posts regularly encounter inflated or fabricated educational and employment qualifications," the consulate wrote.

In an 18 month period, the U.S. investigated 150 companies in Hyderabad that applied for H-1B visas of which 77% "turned out to be fraudulent or highly suspect," the consulate reported.

Read more: http://blogs.computerworld.com/18200/the_inside_on_visa_fraud_in_india

[robinlynne]

1. I dont understand how a company in India can apply for an H1B visa?

[musette_sf]

2. I think they apply as the corporate sponsor

of as many warm bodies as possible. Maybe also provide the CVs of their stable so some nice juicy job descriptions & requirements can be written PRECISELY for their stable.

I'm amazed at some of the incredibly precise and targeted job postings i get sent by BS "recruiters" (i.e., probably cohorts of the Indian firm) whose sole function seems to be to prove that there are "no qualified US citizens for the job". I usually just glance at these and press Delete, but I got one about a month ago that made me write back to the "recruiter" to question the incredibly narrow description and requirements. No response... and a few days later, another "recruiting" "job posting" email, with another long laundry list of egregiously fake requirements. Obviously not on the up and up, at the very least.

[robinlynne]

5. from American companies, right?

[conspirator]

4. They just provide the bogus candidate background. Fake CV, fake experience

and sell the bodies to the indian companies operating in the US, or to their own branch in the US.

[conspirator]

3. kick nt