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High Rate of H-1B Visa Fraud

October 9, 2008

Business week published an article about a report from US Citizenship and Immigration Services that finds more than 13% of H-1B visa petitions are fraudulent. Following are some of the violations specified:

Companies specify locations for the visa worker but they never worked on those locations specified in the visa application.

H-1B workers were paid the below the minimum wage for the qualifications specified in the visa application.

Job description specified in the visa application does not match with the job duties of the visa applicant

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