Feds find high level of fraud in H-1B petitions

By Patrick Thibodeau

October 13, 2008 12:00 PM ET

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Businesses with 25 or fewer employees and revenue of less than $10 million had higher rates of H-1B fraud than larger companies did, the USCIS said.
Of 114 cases involving workers from India, 25% were found to involve fraud or technical violations. No other countries had statistically valid samples.

The report's authors called the level of fraud a "significant vulnerability" for the H-1B program and wrote that the USCIS is making "procedural changes" in response to the findings. An agency spokesman said Friday that possible steps include checking applications against external records and using fraud indicators to flag petitions for increased scrutiny.

This version of the story originally appeared in Computerworld's print edition.

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