Thread by @USTechWorkers

This isn’t a one-off incident. This is exactly how the entire H-1B visa program functions:

“An Indian technology company, which also has its office in Houston, has admitted to a conspiracy of committing a major H-1B visa fraud.”
hindustantimes.com/nri-news/india…

“Cloudgen took a percentage of the worker’s salary as their fees, earning approximately $493,516.28 in profits during the course of the conspiracy.”

Every Indian IT outsourcing firm does this. Nothing new here.

“During the plea, the company admitted to recruiting multiple Information Technology workers from India and falsely procuring H-1B visas for them to enter and work in the US.”

It always involves India. Any congress member ever ask why 75% of H-1B visas go to Indian nationals?

“Specifically, in this bench and switch scheme, the company would file documents with the Departments of Labor (DOL) and Homeland Security (DHS) containing fraudulent statements about the availability of work at third-party national employers.”

“Cloudgen would then submit forged contracts stating each third-party company had a job for the individual Indian national. Next, based on those false documents, Cloudgen would submit paperwork to get an H-1B worker’s visa for the Indian nationals.”

“However, because the jobs were fake, they were housed in different locations across the country while Cloudgen obtained other employment for them.”

This is why the H-1B program is oversubscribed — bogus petitions by firms looking to lease migrant workers for a profit.