Vance defended Trump administration’s controversial $100,000 payment requirement for certain H-1B petitions. US Vice President JD Vance has called the H-1B visa programme “completely broken” and said he would support scrapping it, accusing companies of using the system to replace American workers with lower-paid foreign employees.In a video shared on X, Vance said the programme … Read more
Immigration experts flag H-1B processing delays for employees of Microsoft, Cognizant, and Infosys. Immigration attorneys Rahul Reddy and Emily Neumann expressed concern over some tech companies experiencing difficulties in getting H-1B extensions for their employees. Reddy said it is concerning as companies like Microsoft, Cognizant and Infosys employ a huge number of Indians, while Neumann … Read more
File photo: Second judge blocks $100,000 visa fee A second US federal judge has blocked US President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas for highly skilled foreign workers, dealing another legal setback to the administration’s attempt to sharply increase the cost of the programme.US district judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland, California, ruled that … Read more
Sara Gonzales visited the house of one Rajender Rao Bairineni and accused him of H-1B abuse. The family called 911. An Indian family living in Plano called the police when journalist Sara Gonzales visited their house with her H-1B allegations, as she had been doing for the past few months. Sara revealed that she got … Read more
The US Department of Labor is stepping up its crackdown on suspected foreign labor fraud, with Labor Department Inspector General Anthony D’Esposito warning that investigators are pursuing more cases involving visa fraud, worker exploitation and potential human trafficking. US Labor Department widens foreign labor fraud crackdown. (REUTERS) In a September 25 “Fraud Friday” video, D’Esposito … Read more
A proposed $103,265 H-1B visa fee could end up costing the US Treasury billions of dollars over the next decade if the steep increase prompts employers to reduce applications, according to a new analysis by the Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) Research Center. H-1B visa fee could cost US Treasury $38 billion. (Representational photo) … Read more
JD Vance’s new H-1B warning to corporate America. Vice President JD Vance doubled down on White House’s recent action against H-1B visa abuse and put out a message to corporate America: “We’re not going to let you lay off American workers so you can replace them with cheap foreign labor.” The message was linked to … Read more
Sara Gonzales puts a ‘Nagarjuna is an H-1B trafficker’ poster in the lawn of the owner of an IT consultancy company. In May this year, Texas journalist Sara Gonzales picked up an alleged H-1B abuse case by one Nagarjuna Reddy Sakam, who made plenty of hires through his company ‘Great America Technologies’. Gonzales, at that … Read more
Washington, The Foundation for India and Indian Diaspora Studies has welcomed tighter scrutiny of H-1B visa applications, but cautioned that it should not come at the cost of American innovation, as jobs requiring highly specialised skills cannot always be filled immediately from the available domestic labour pool. Welcome tighter H-1B scrutiny, but not at the … Read more
Wage mismatch and an H-1B petition revoked in Florida. US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that they revoked an H-1B petition in Florida because of an issue over wage mismatch. While it was an individual case, it serves as a warning against such practices, as the agency reminded the petitioners that these are not … Read more