Funny you should ask, I’ve been investigating the fraud in the F-1 Student Visa system too.
It’s just as big of a rabbit hole as the H-1B stuff and the two are very interconnected. Buckle up because this one is something.
Here’s the game. Students from India fake their undergraduate degrees and just apply straight to Masters programs. The reasons for this relate to H-1B reqs and other things but also because colleges have gone full woke and stupidly don’t have any way to verify the undergraduate certificates. So they just accept them most of the time. Canada is much worse btw, they have actual diploma mills with like 80k Indian students.
Once the student has been accepted for their masters the fun part begins. They pay people with masters degrees in India to do the work for them and they have people within the masters programs themselves who are complicit (that whole nepotism thing again) to help them. This means they can skate through the masters program without getting caught. While they are “at school” they drive for uber/doordash for money.
Once they “graduate” and finish their masters they are now here illegally so it’s time to defraud the H-1B system. Enter the Indian H-1B consultants.
The grift is basically this. The employee is a “subcontractor” working for the consulting firm and being subcontracted out to one of their clients. The problem is they don’t have a Visa. So the consulting firm just fakes an H-1B Visa. Since it’s the consulting firm’s job to check, the company is none the wiser that they are actually using illegal labor.
Obviously the “contractor” has no idea what they are doing so this work is also outsourced back to someone in India that the H-1B consultant has set up.
The payment is made to the consulting firm and the worker is paid under the table. From what I’ve been told these are very predatory agreements so it usually means the worker has to still drive uber etc.
Once the first contract is finished. They now have real experience to put on their resume with a real reference and everything. So they begin the process of actually applying for their H-1B.
The consultant once again manages the whole process, commits a ton of fraud to get through the lottery system. Finds a company who needs a permanent IT hire. Company then sponsors the candidate and voila. They’ve committed like 10 instances of fraud but the person is now legit, has an H-1B and can work in the US.
Maybe we should rethink that whole “staple a green card to every diploma” idea.
Funny you should ask, I've been investigating the fraud in the F-1 Student Visa system too.
It's just as big of a rabbit hole as the H-1B stuff and the two are very interconnected. Buckle up because this one is something.
Here's the game. Students from India fake their… https://t.co/QfOHhDX0Mo
— Aesthetica (@Anc_Aesthetics) December 29, 2024
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Why is the right concerned about H1B visas instead of student visas? We issue half a million student visas per year, they provide a firehose of money to woke universities, many of which would shut down if they couldn’t sell visas to foreigners, and the students are mediocre.
— Daniel Friedman (@DanFriedman81) December 28, 2024
We’re overlooking an even worse crisis: how ‘student visa’ scandal is fueling woke academia…https://t.co/HjsqTzM7PAhttps://t.co/HjsqTzM7PA
— Revolver News (@RevolverNewsUSA) December 30, 2024
Let’s start with no visas for STEM grad students from communist powers. That’s more than 300k off the board right away. https://t.co/toZLX6mDUE
— Lee Smith (@LeeSmithDC) December 30, 2024
And OPT, which was never approved by Congress, makes the student visa program, F-1 and the H-1B program much worse
🧵You thought the H-1B visa was bad? Wait until you hear about the largest guest worker program killing jobs for new American college grads—the Optional Practical Training (OPT):
• No caps⁰• Employers get payroll tax exemptions⁰• No wage requirements@NumbersUSA explains: pic.twitter.com/ipTyUe3oVy
— U.S. Tech Workers (@USTechWorkers) December 30, 2024
And OPT, which was never approved by Congress, makes the student visa program and the H-1B program much worse. What kind of nation actually subsidizes the employment of foreign workers over its own citizens? https://t.co/cTJ6erZYSS
— Immigration Accountability Project (@I_A_Project) December 30, 2024
h/t WVU82
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