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A report by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services that
found evidence of forged documents, fake degrees and shell
companies being used in H-1B applications will likely lead to
increased scrutiny of the visa petitions if the USCIS implements some of the steps it is now
considering.
A USCIS spokesman said today that the
agency is weighing a series of reforms to the H-1B application
process, including the use of “independent open-source data” to
obtain information about visa seekers or the companies that
file the petitions on their behalf. For instance, USCIS officials could check petitioning companies
against commercially available records to make sure that they
are legitimate businesses.
The USCIS is also looking at implementing a risk assessment program for applications “based on objective criteria relating to fraud indicators,” the spokesman said. That would enable the agency to give greater scrutiny to H-1B petitions that raise flags during the review process.
