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Funny you should ask, I've been investigating the fraud in the F-1 Student Visa system too.
It's just as big of a rabbit hole as the H-1B stuff and the two are very interconnected. Buckle up because this one is something.
Here's the game.
Students from India fake their undergraduate degrees and just apply straight to Masters programs. The reasons for this relate to H-1B reqs and other things but also because colleges have gone full woke and stupidly don't have any way to verify the undergraduate certificates. So they just accept them most of the time. Canada is much worse btw, they have actual diploma mills with like 80k Indian students.
Once the student has been accepted for their masters the fun part begins. They pay people with masters degrees in India to do the work for them and they have people within the masters programs themselves who are complicit (that whole nepotism thing again) to help them. This means they can skate through the masters program without getting caught. While they are "at school" they drive for uber/doordash for money.
Once they "graduate" and finish their masters they are now here illegally so it's time to defraud the H-1B system. Enter the Indian H-1B consultants.
The grift is basically this.
The employee is a "subcontractor" working for the consulting firm and being subcontracted out to one of their clients. The problem is they don't have a Visa. So the consulting firm just fakes an H-1B Visa. Since it's the consulting firm's job to check, the company is none the wiser that they are actually using illegal labor.
Obviously the "contractor" has no idea what they are doing so this work is also outsourced back to someone in India that the H-1B consultant has set up.
The payment is made to the consulting firm and the worker is paid under the table. From what I've been told these are very predatory agreements so it usually means the worker has to still drive uber etc.
Once the first contract is finished. They now have real experience to put on their resume with a real reference and everything. So they begin the process of actually applying for their H-1B.
The consultant once again manages the whole process, commits a ton of fraud to get through the lottery system. Finds a company who needs a permanent IT hire. Company then sponsors the candidate and voila. They've committed like 10 instances of fraud but the person is now legit, has an H-1B and can work in the US.
Maybe we should rethink that whole "staple a green card to every diploma" idea.
Funny you should ask, I've been investigating the fraud in the F-1 Student Visa system too.
It's just as big of a rabbit hole as the H-1B stuff and the two are very interconnected. Buckle up because this one is something.
Here's the game.
Students from India fake their undergraduate degrees and just apply straight to Masters programs. The reasons for this relate to H-1B reqs and other things but also because colleges have gone full woke and stupidly don't have any way to verify the undergraduate certificates. So they just accept them most of the time. Canada is much worse btw, they have actual diploma mills with like 80k Indian students.
Once the student has been accepted for their masters the fun part begins. They pay people with masters degrees in India to do the work for them and they have people within the masters programs themselves who are complicit (that whole nepotism thing again) to help them. This means they can skate through the masters program without getting caught. While they are "at school" they drive for uber/doordash for money.
Once they "graduate" and finish their masters they are now here illegally so it's time to defraud the H-1B system. Enter the Indian H-1B consultants.
The grift is basically this.
The employee is a "subcontractor" working for the consulting firm and being subcontracted out to one of their clients. The problem is they don't have a Visa. So the consulting firm just fakes an H-1B Visa. Since it's the consulting firm's job to check, the company is none the wiser that they are actually using illegal labor.
Obviously the "contractor" has no idea what they are doing so this work is also outsourced back to someone in India that the H-1B consultant has set up.
The payment is made to the consulting firm and the worker is paid under the table. From what I've been told these are very predatory agreements so it usually means the worker has to still drive uber etc.
Once the first contract is finished. They now have real experience to put on their resume with a real reference and everything. So they begin the process of actually applying for their H-1B.
The consultant once again manages the whole process, commits a ton of fraud to get through the lottery system. Finds a company who needs a permanent IT hire. Company then sponsors the candidate and voila. They've committed like 10 instances of fraud but the person is now legit, has an H-1B and can work in the US.
Maybe we should rethink that whole "staple a green card to every diploma" idea.
