Immigration lawyer Stewart Rabinowitz of the Dallas-based firm Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz offers some perspective on how USCIS plans to prevent, detect, and address fraud within the H-1B visa program in 2010.<\/p>\n
In September 2008, USCIS published a report entitled H-1B Benefit Fraud & Compliance Assessment of the H-1B visa program. As background, the H-1B classification permits a foreign national to work for a U.S. employer in a position deemed professional, and which requires at minimum a bachelor\u2019s degree. Each H-1B employer must certify to the Department of Labor that the wage paid to the foreign national by the H-1B employer is the required wage (frequently the prevailing wage) in the area of intended employment, and must document the source of establishing wage offered, in addition to meeting many other technical requirements. USCIS collects substantial fees for filing H-1B petitions, including a $500.00 anti-fraud fee.The anti-fraud fee is currently $500.00. As of 2009, (more…)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Immigration lawyer Stewart Rabinowitz of the Dallas-based firm Rabinowitz & Rabinowitz offers some perspective on how USCIS plans to prevent, detect, and address fraud within the H-1B visa program in 2010. In September 2008, USCIS published a report entitled H-1B…<\/span><\/p>\n