H1-B Visa Fraud: Indian CEOs Flee to India

Well, it’s now an open secret in the US. Indian consultancy firms and shell companies are filing multiple visas for one candidate, and it is fraudulent. The government knows it, and so does the Home Department.

However, of late, a growing number of Americans are finding it counter-productive to their careers and are trying to mobilize their voices.

According to the latest media reports in the US, the Biden government has initiated investigations into H1-B visa fraud and has been cracking down on companies violating the norms. Seeing that it is hard to thrive in the current scenario, quite a few though not all, Indian CEOs are winding up their businesses and coming back to India.

In fact, some of them are closing their entire business and returning to India to avoid fraud charges by President Biden’s Department of Homeland Security. Usually, much of the fraud is done by Indian-born CEOs who run many of the second-tier and third-tier white-collar subcontracting jobs under the Fortune 500.

USCIS clearly states that they are committed to preventing abuse of the H1-B registration process by undertaking extensive fraud investigations and referrals for criminal prosecution.

Till 2021, one candidate could file one application and get his H1-B through the lottery. However, now the CEOs mentioned above have started filing multiple visas from different companies pretty well, knowing it’s unlawful.

Hence, run back by the CEOs to India to cover their tracks, where they can rest assured that USCIS will be unable to forge criminal charges.