“IMMIGRATION LAW CONNECTION”

According to unofficial sources, U.S. immigration officials will be taking to the field to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of H-1B employers over the course of Fiscal Year 2010, which began October 1.  This would essentially amount to a 400% increase over inspections conducted the previous fiscal year.

In an ever-increasing effort to combat immigration benefits fraud, and to weed out ‘bogus’ applications,  USCIS and ICE will significantly increase their on-site visits of foreign workers and their employers.

These increased inspections apparent are coming in response to a study conducted by USCIS in 2008, which found fraud and other willful violations in about 20% of approved H-1B applications. Data for other employment-based classifications, such as L-1 workers and others, was not made available.