It’s not called fraud and abuse because “immigrants are taking our jobs”. It’s called fraud and abuse because it’s fraud and abuse. It’s been prevalent in the H1B process for years.
Personally, I’m all for America bringing in talented foreign nationals. But the H1B process is bad for foreigners looking to work in the US who get way underpaid and don’t have easy options to work at a different firm. And bad for American workers who have to compete against underpaid wages.
Given that the point of the program is to bring in talent unavailable, it’s become a farce. I think companies hiring H1B’s at below market wages probably think they’re getting a bargain. But I doubt that most of them - maybe other than FAANG - are getting good talent at lowball wages.
It seems that you didn't read the article.
I'll help you with the fraud part:
> When I was at USCIS," explained Law, "you would have registrations or petitions with very common names. The belief from some of the fraud folks was that some of the common names were inserted in there and then these businesses, after they won the lottery, would then go out and actually find somebody [with that name] as opposed to having a real candidate in place."
> One form of H-1B fraud involves companies colluding to file multiple petitions on behalf of the same foreign worker. This serves to give the IT consultancies involved in trying to bring this worker to the US a greater chance of having their applicant selected, and of collecting a commission. As above, that's supposed to be more difficult under the new system.
runlaszlorun|1 year ago
Personally, I’m all for America bringing in talented foreign nationals. But the H1B process is bad for foreigners looking to work in the US who get way underpaid and don’t have easy options to work at a different firm. And bad for American workers who have to compete against underpaid wages.
Given that the point of the program is to bring in talent unavailable, it’s become a farce. I think companies hiring H1B’s at below market wages probably think they’re getting a bargain. But I doubt that most of them - maybe other than FAANG - are getting good talent at lowball wages.
It’s a bad program all around.
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notdang|1 year ago
> When I was at USCIS," explained Law, "you would have registrations or petitions with very common names. The belief from some of the fraud folks was that some of the common names were inserted in there and then these businesses, after they won the lottery, would then go out and actually find somebody [with that name] as opposed to having a real candidate in place."
> One form of H-1B fraud involves companies colluding to file multiple petitions on behalf of the same foreign worker. This serves to give the IT consultancies involved in trying to bring this worker to the US a greater chance of having their applicant selected, and of collecting a commission. As above, that's supposed to be more difficult under the new system.
calculatte|1 year ago