Monday, September 1, 2008

H1-B FRAUD

From original post here.
http://oneoldvet.com/?p=6881 and here
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/PoliticsNation/Immigration_scam_by_NRI_busted/articleshow/3133344.cms
Immigration scam by Indian American busted, seven held


NEW YORK: An Indian American running an IT company in the US and six Indians have been arrested in an alleged immigration scam involving H1B visas.

New Jersey-based Nilesh Dasondi has been charged with using his CyGate Software and Consulting company to petition for fraudulent work visas and green cards on behalf of people for a fee.

A member of the Edison town’s zoning board, Dasondi, 41, is a naturalised US citizen who made an unsuccessful bid in last year’s Edison council Democratic primary.

According to papers filed by Assistant US Attorney Burt Ryan, at least six Indian beneficiaries reportedly paid him large sums for their immigration to the US. Three of them were arrested from Long Island in New York and one each from New Jersey, Chicago and Arizona last week.

Newsday reported that the three Long Islanders — Kishor Parikh, 42, Devang Patel, 31, and Chetan Trivedi, 40 — made monthly payments totalling between $70,000 and $100,000 to Dasondi between 2004 and 2007 in return for false pay stubs, pay checks and health insurance payments submitted to the government as “proof” of their employment as computer experts.

Why the need to produce fake paystubs ? That's because these Indian H1-B visa holders are here without a proper employer/sponsor. They have been sponsored by body-shops and they feed at the bottom of the food chain, scouting around for projects, working long hours for pennies to a dollar.

They need official looking paystubs, to ensure a renewal of the Visas.

NO MORE INDIAN H1-B VISAS, please.

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