Thread by @HemanNamo

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The H-1B program was meant to bring the “best & brightest” to America. 🇺🇸
But over time, it became riddled with fraud, loopholes, and exploitation.
Here’s how Big Tech, agents, universities & even some visa holders gamed the system 👇

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⚠️ Fraud by Big Tech Employers
•Infosys: $34M fine for visa misuse
•Cognizant: $95M settlement
•Disney (with Infosys/TCS): replaced 250 US workers with H-1Bs
•Meta: $14.25M fine for job discrimination
➡️ Americans lost jobs, wages depressed.

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⚠️ How it Harmed Americans
•Job losses: U.S. workers replaced by cheaper H-1Bs
•Wage depression: underpaying visa workers dragged salaries down
•Discrimination: jobs reserved for visa holders over locals
•Exploitation: captive labor pool tied to employers

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⚠️ Consultants & Agents’ Fraud
•Lottery flooding with fake applications
•Selling H-1B visas illegally to workers
•“Bench system”: bringing workers without jobs lined up
•Fake job offers & middlemen chains skimming salaries

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⚠️ Universities’ Role
•Visa mills: fake schools like Tri-Valley, UNNJ
•“Day 1 CPT” loophole → work without real study
•Collusion with Indian agents charging fees
•Dubious “research jobs” with high H-1B filings

➡️ Corrupted education, misled students, cheap labor pipeline.

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⚠️ Loopholes Exploited
•Multiple filings in lottery via shell firms
•Fake client letters & resumes
•Filing at lowest wage levels
•OPT/CPT abuse before H-1B
•Paying agents huge illegal fees

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⚠️ How Some H-1B Holders Exploited the System
•Moonlighting with multiple jobs
•Selling “bench time” to others
•Fake skill resumes
•Visa shopping with kickbacks
•Unauthorized side hustles/businesses
•Using green card backlog as leverage

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🎓 Life of an H-1B in America
•Shared housing & saving aggressively 💵
•Long work hours, tied to employer 🖥️
•Spouse on H-4 often unable to work 😔
•Kids “age out” at 21 if green card backlog continues 👶
•Constant stress of job loss & deportation clock ⏳

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📌 The Bottom Line:
The H-1B program has been abused at multiple levels — by employers, agents, universities, and even some workers.
It hurt U.S. jobs and exploited Indian talent.
Reforms are not anti-Indian — they’re anti-abuse.

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🔒 Tightening of H-1B Rules in the U.S.
From Obama → Trump → Biden → Now Trump 2.0, scrutiny only got tougher.

⚠️ 2025: $100,000 annual fee per H-1B worker, aimed at ending outsourcing & visa abuse.

Not anti-immigrant. It’s anti-abuse.

#H1B #USPolitics #Tech