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The Associated Press is reporting that Federal Prosecutors have filed conspiracy charges against a part-owner of two information technology firms and an employee for fraudulently using the H-1B program.
Prosecutors said the conspirators falsely represented that the foreign workers had full-time positions and were paid an annual salary. They said the workers were only paid when placed at a third-party client and the defendants sometimes generated false payroll records. The defendants are charged with conspiracy to commit visa fraud and obstruct justice and conspiracy to harbor aliens. They face up to 15 years in prison if convicted on all counts.
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Federal Prosecutors Actually Charge an IT Firm with H1-B Visa Fraud
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(Score: 2) by meustrus on Friday September 30 2016, @01:47PM
So basically the staffing firm didn't want to have to pay to keep them on staff at all times, but also didn't want to send them back to their home countries. Sounds like a pretty reasonable plan to me. I guess we're in the business of punishing people that don't use the H-1B system to exploit their foreign-born employees.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Saturday October 01 2016, @02:27AM
The article says "the workers were only paid when placed at a third-party client" so it sounds as though they were working only intermittently. I assume that the terms of their visas prohibited these labourers from taking on other work while they awaited a call from the agency. So, it appears to me, they travelled to a foreign country to work, yet they couldn't count on a steady income. I don't know whether the agency informed the workers beforehand that that would be the situation. My suspicion is that they did not. And you don't consider that exploitation...SMH.