It's a SCAM and nothing ELSE

http://inhome.rediff.com/money/2007/jul/04visa.htm

It's a well-oiled machine money making machine. There's nothing in there for genuine American companies to bring in foreign expertise.
Here are some excerpts from the article above.

Agent: We will get you a fake employer. He'll file for your H-1B. He will
have a proper company and will be a US citizen.

Us: So what happens once we get there?

Agent: The fake employer who files for your H-1B will give you a work permit and will get away and once you get there, this fake employer will give you a no-objection certificate (NOC), saying you can work with any employer.
Us: Will you find me a job there?
Agent: Once you are there, we have people who will help you with contacts. We can only assist you.
Us: How much will it cost?
Agent: $2,250 will be the immigration fee, $2,250 will be lawyers charges
Us: Do many people go to the US using this route?

Agent: People who know and who have relatives ask for fake employers. They want to go there on real jobs. . . Because here you won't get a job as good as the one you can get when you are in the US.

Us: How long it'll take to find a real job?

Agent: Jobs in the US are tremendous. The problem is not getting a job but getting a visa. We will have all the interviews lined up for you and once you get there, you will attend those and find a job.

Using this route, these so-called counsellors send professionals to the US practically without a job. The search for jobs begins only after applicants land in the US. Individuals cannot apply for an H-1B visa on their own. Their employer must petition for them. Petitions for this visa begin on April 1 every year.

Manoj, an H-1B visa holder is still waiting for the past one year to fly to the US. This 28-year-old was happy working in a leading multinational firm in Hyderabad, till he decided to head to the land of opportunities.
Like thousands of others like him, he too approached a consulatant to help him realise his dream to work in the US. His H-1B petition got approved in October 2006 but it was then that his ordeal started. Instead of taking him to the US, his broker took away his visa documents needed for him to take off.

He then asked Manoj to buy an IP phone with a US number and start looking for a job. Manoj spent many sleepless nights talking to his prospective employers in the US, all the time telling them that he was in the US. Most of the time, the job offers fell through when the employers, thinking Manoj was in the US, wanted him to join at a very short notice.

US authorities admit H-1B visa frauds are rampant. Last year alone, they found 2,000 H-1B applications suspicious. These applications were returned to the US Department of Homeland Security for reconsideration. The Consular Section Chief, US Consulate, Mumbai, Glen Keiser, says, "We also see people who are going to jobs that we suspect do not exist. These people are unable to describe their projects to us. When we do even a cursory examination, we may find that the company in the US is simply nothing more than just a shell. Neither are they in a position to offer work themselves nor do they have a client base, where they can send a qualified worker."
Pradeep Udhas, global head, sourcing advisory, KPMG, says, "Today, India's software companies are booming. They depend a lot on H-1B visas because their business models are such that they need people to be onsite. Their business models won't work if the H-1B visas are not given."

ANOTHER H-1B SCUM

Check out these forums entries.
One wonders why is it so easy for them even to lie on their resumes ?
They even try to defraud the Government and rules of Federal Agencies. Makes regular US citizens look like fools.
http://murthyforum.atinfopop.com/4/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1024039761&f=5374040662&m=9181037571

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I am working on H1 through a consultancy company. My consultancy is giving me 75% of my billing rate, which is not bad but I can do better if I transfer my H1 and payroll to a friend's company who will not take any money from my billing rate. Fortunately, one of my close friends, who is a citizen, is willing to register a company for the sole purpose of running my payroll.The problem is I am not sure about all the paperwork that a company has to show in order to file for an H1 transfer. Since the company would be totally new, no tax/revenue documents would be available. However, since my client knows about my intentions and has agreed to go through the payroll transfer, my friend's company will have a client contract (proof of guaranteed income) in order to show the availability of funds to pay me. I would appreciate it if someone with a similar experience or knowledge would help me out. TIA.
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Why would you care about the paperwork? That's not your job. In other words,
your friend is not really running the company, you are. That's illegal

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Contact a competent attorney like Murthy! Good luckhowdy_howdy

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How is this company going to demonstrate the resources to pay you? The company
is a fraud since it has no intention of generating any revenue - profits - for
the owner. How are they going to pay their share of the social security and
medicare taxes if they are paying you 100% of the billing? What about the other
taxes that are due by virtue of the company's existance? Guess what happens if
"your fiend's" company does not pay taxes due? He could go to prison for tax
evasion; is he aware of the consequences to him of his favor to you?Schemes like
this and people like you are one of the reasons that citizens are angry about
H1B visas

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You think the H-1B admits individuals with critical skills that is required by the US economy ?
NO IT DOES NOT. IT ADMITS SCUMS LIKE THESE INTO THE COUNTRY

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.

Lou Dobbs reports.

A law firm is teaching corporations how to get around hiring American workers for jobs so they can import foreign workers under the H1-B visa program. Lawrence M. Lebowitz, the marketing director of the Pittsburgh law firm of Cohen & Grigsby, told executives at its Immigration Law Update Seminar how to advertise to make it look like there are no qualified U.S. workers. "Our goal clearly is not to find a qualified and interested U.S. worker," he said

THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY

The Internet and IT revolution has been an American contribution to the world. From IBM and Mainframe computing, evolution of the UNIX operating system, Relational Databases, Desktop computing and Java.

Every single one of them is an American invention, born, bred and nurtured here in the USA

Sadly, we will never see such a revolution in technology anymore. Never, ever again.

Anerican students no longer want to pursue higher education in the sciences, notably computer science.
There's simply no financial future in an IT career.

Salaries are cheap, capped and pressured down by Indian H-1Bs. There's absolutely no career path.


Which parent would spend 200,000 for a 4-year CS degree so their kid could toil 60-hour weeks for 60,000 per year ?

Indian students complete a CS degree (if you can call those paper mills a university or a college) for $600 (with living expenses to included !!)

They make excellent ROI coming here on an H-1B for $48,000 per annum.

Fewer students enrolled in undergraduate courses simply means, much fewer post-graduate students, which trickles to even fewer PhD candidates.

Which will snowball to an understaffed and underpaid faculty.

Even if it's cheaper to get an Indian H-1B.

What are you people doing to this country ?
What are you leaving our children with ?

Think about it !!

An Embellished Resume

http://fsbfeatures.blogs.fsb.cnn.com/2007/09/25/should-the-us-grant-more-h-1b-visas/

In short: Absolutely not. Both my wife and I have over 40 years combined experience in the IT arena, and we’ve worked as developers, project managers, team leads, DBAs, business analysts. We have never seen such utter lack of competence in the IT world since the onslaught of cheap Indian labor in the late 90’s and right after the Y2K crisis.

Many of these Indian H1B developers’ resumes are filled with outright lies; they regularly claim they have certification and experience orders of magnitude above what they actually have; and worst of all, in many cases, they are literally impossible to understand because of language difficulties, making project work a nightmare.

Most of this is cultural, unfortunately: In India, Pakistan, and China, there is no concept of intellectual property, and there is also massive corruption that influences everyday life. So it’s totally acceptable to embellish by 20% or 50% because everyone else around you is doing it.
Put that same person in an American setting, and the lack of coding quality, understanding of simple American and European business principles, and - most importantly - the ability to act intuitively without any direct management simply evaporates.

The reason for this mess, pure and simple: After Y2K, contractors were charging outrageously high rates for coding and development, and IT departments were reeling from those costs. Rather than solve the problem - hiring only the best workers, training the substandard ones to become better, and simply flushing the rest - the Indians showed up with promises of being able to do the work for 20% of the cost. American CFOs and freshly-minted MBAs saw this as a chance to regain control of these costs, figuring that even if the offshored resource screws it up four times, they were still ahead of the game in terms of cost.

What needs to happen, unfortuately, is a major disaster, either from a security / data loss standpoint, or the loss of a major center of Indian computing. (After all, Pakistan hates India, and vice versa … and they both do have nuclear weapons, right?) And then it’s time to call all the junior MBAs on the carpet and start rolling heads down the hallway. I have a bevy of American friends who understand how to benefit from this … and we’re just waiting for the show to start. Keep watching - it’s gonna be an interesting end to this decade!

In this country, as long as you can lie

I was having lunch with P and A the other day. Both were SAP professionals.

"A" has just been here for 2 years, he's currently on his H-1B.
I have worked with both of them for 3 months when this conversation occured.

"A" was not too impressive, he talks way too much in SAP and IT jargons - he almost seems like an insecure brat who seems to be trying way too hard to make himself 'misunderstood' sometimes hoping and trying to get everyone to not understand him, lest he does not have to explain himself in further detail and also so he gets to hang around projects for as long as possible.


It was amazing how the conversation went

"P" mentioned that a friend of his just resigned from a large consulting firm to be an independent contractor. According to "P", the rate was a whopping USD220 per hour as a consultant in the HR (Human Resources) module within SAP

"A" eyes immediatey lit up. He was asking about the location, company, project duration.
I could not help myself. I had to cut in, "But you are not an HR consultant !?", I chimed in.

"A" turned and look at me, quite indignantly he looked at me, almost like I was an annoying moron and said, "In the US, as long as you can talk and lie, you can land an IT job, all you need is a fake resume"

I was nonetheless shocked and flabbergasted at the response. But playing the role of the uninitiated, I had to feign innocence and quickly phrase my next question, "But how do you get pass the interview ?"

Holding my breath, as I waited for him to choke and realise that his attempt of lying and faking will not work.
His reply almost floored me.

"Look here", 'A' quickly shot back, "Most interviews are conducted by phone anyways, when you go for an interview, you write those questions down. You collect those questions and read up on them. Sure, you may fail the first interview and maybe the second interview"

"By the time you answered the phone for the tenth interview, you would have written down enough interview questions to get you through", he looked at me again. "Don't tell me you are that stupid"


So, it was a superb modus operandi, from writing fake resumes to writing interview questions down and studying for it over and over again.

Once again, another Indian H-1B trash.