There are many Indian consulting/vendor shops out there that flout many H1B rules. 1. They take H1B filing fee from employee. 2. They keep you on bench. if you have no job, the consulting firm will run a dummy payroll for you to maintain legal visa status and you have to pay back payroll taxes to them to make up for their loss. 3. Most of the time they will not have a job before hand as required by H1B programme. They will hire some one, keep them on payroll(point 2 above) and then start the search for a contractor work from their clients.
There is lot of fraud going on there. I would say about 50% of H1B visas go to these scams. Ask any Indians working on big companies and they can explain you the bigger picture. Its pathetic that DHS/USCIS are unaware of these widespread scams.
There is lot of fraud going on there. I would say about 50% of H1B visas go to these scams. Ask any Indians working on big companies and they can explain you the bigger picture. Its pathetic that DHS/USCIS are unaware of these widespread scams.