How to hack H-1B Visas (and get paid big money to do it!!!)
Wow! Much respect to Brijesh for posting this info!
Every other week when I come back home from work my wife used to ask me something like this…
“You know what. This girl who has just 3-year degree from India and on H4 visa here is going to apply for H1B through a desi consultant. Can I also try?”
The desi consultants want my wife who has zero knowledge in IT field to say “Yes” so that they can file H1B visa for her. This sums up how desi consultants work in US and why the 65,000 limit for H1B visa got over in a day.
I fully know that there are a lot of good desi consultants out there. But recently so many have mushroomed that they are just just looking out for a “living human body” so that they can file H1B on his/her behalf. Only thing that human body should have is that he should be able to give them around $4000. Rest will be taken care by the consultant. The desi consultant would make a fake resume with tons of experience loaded into it in which you wont even know a word other than your own name and fool the immigration system in US and file for your H1B visa.
By US law it is illegal for the employer (desi consultant) to make employee pay for the H1B Visa expenses. But for desi consultants they have their own law. The way the desi consultant works reminds me the agents who work to recruit laborers to Middle East. They are fooling the educated people and the sad part is that educated people fall into this trap due to their greediness for earning dollars.
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This is how the US contracting market works. There are three beneficiaries of the racket.
1) The American client: Saves a lot of money by hiring a contractor, instead of paying the benefits associated with a full-time position. Prefers to act oblivious to all activities taking below his/her own domain of influence. Prefers to hire candidates with at-least 5 years of experience in a myriad of technologies. Doesn’t want to do costly background checks.
2) The Desi vendor: The middleman who takes advantage of his/her green card/citizen status, by acting as a pipeline between the client and the employee. The green card is an immigration platform for the H1B holder, which if s(he) loses is subject to deportation. Bills twice the amount to the client and pays half to the H1B holder.
3) The Desi employee: Usually the most gullible of the three, is scapegoated into faking a resume, with the 5 years of experience in the plethora of sought technologies, often learning all of those in a rapid-track training session, does it with impunity due to need to kickstart an IT career and the lure of earning dollars. The fresh graduate, usually a masters or phd student, again takes refuge in the desi vendor, for escaping the clutches of the draconian immigration law, which deems that s(he) is subject to deportation immediately on failure to have/maintain a job.
To get rid of the menace caused by the Desi consultants in US I’ve started
http://www.goolti.com
where you can red/write reviews about Desi consulting companies.