Thread: Immigrants using forged documents to get H1B visa

Immigrants using forged documents to get H1B visa



Sridhar Krishnaswami
Washington, Oct 9 In a development that is bound to trigger a larger debate on the highly skilled H1B visas, an internal report of the US immigration services has found forged documents and fake degrees, and even "shell" companies giving addresses of fake locations to obtain the permit.
The report by US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has been released by Republican Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa, a known critic and sceptic of the H1B and L Visa programmes, who along with Democratic Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has been pushing for legislation to fine tune the issuance and oversight of the particular visa programmes.
Employers didn't pay prevailing wages in some cases and benched employees when there wasn't work, while some employees worked at jobs that differed from what the application claimed they would be doing.
In a case, an H-1B holder was found "working in a laundromat doing laundry and maintaining washing machines," the report has said according to what has been published in Computerworld.
"This report validates the major flaws in the H-1B visa programme that we have been talking about. It's unacceptable that these fraudulent activities are slipping through the cracks when there is so much legitimate demand for H-1B visas.
"Until we make a conscious effort to close the loopholes, we're going to see continued abuse where people coming to this country on H-1B visas are working at laundromats. This report is proof that reform must come sooner rather than later. The programme ought to operate the way Congress intended so qualified high-tech American workers aren't left behind," Senator Grassley said in a statement. (Agencies)


Published: Thursday, October 09, 2008


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Originally Posted by jean

"Until we make a conscious effort to close the loopholes, we're going to see continued abuse where people coming to this country on H-1B visas are working at laundromats. This report is proof that reform must come sooner rather than later. The programme ought to operate the way Congress intended so qualified high-tech American workers aren't left behind," Senator Grassley said in a statement. (Agencies)

Promises, promises.

Until swift decisive action is taken now and the program is immediately suspended for fraud any tongue wagging will have been 10 years too late.

Forget about closing the loopholes, just close the ENTIRE program! It has wreaked incalculable damage to this country by throwing hundreds of thousands of skilled and degreed Americans out of work as well as destroying homes and devastating a broad swath of the middle-class economy.

Forget about the 'laundromat' and start visiting and getting the stories of the thousands of Americans whose lives have been destroyed by this corrupt piece of legislation and help them get their jobs back!

Help them get their jobs back after this horrible Federal government has done everything to ruin their careers!

IT IS ONLY FAIR!

There should be a complete halt to all visas untill we get our workers back to work and our economy running again.Also everyone should write their govenor and demand they check wellfare,foodstamps,
and driver licenses through the s.s.# verification program. Ihave already
written my gov.



STAND TALL PATRIOTS