{"id":1003884,"date":"2026-04-20T09:37:49","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1003884"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:49:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T04:19:21","slug":"h-1b-fraud-indian-origin-duo-pleads-guilty-in-worker-visa-conspiracy-involving-university-jobs-scheme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/20\/h-1b-fraud-indian-origin-duo-pleads-guilty-in-worker-visa-conspiracy-involving-university-jobs-scheme\/","title":{"rendered":"H-1B fraud: Indian-origin duo pleads guilty in worker visa conspiracy involving university jobs scheme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Indian-origin men, currently living in Dublin, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit H-1B visa fraud earlier this week, the US Justice Department announced Friday (US time) in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>The men involved have been identified as Sampath Rajidi and Sreedhar Mada. Both are 51-year-old residents of Dublin, East Bay, in the United States. US authorities detailed further that their scheme was orchestrated by filing visa petitions for non-existent roles at the University of California. After securing H-1B worker visa approvals, they would later place workers with private clients, according to US federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Indian-origin men, currently living in Dublin, California, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit H-1B visa fraud earlier this week, the US Justice Department announced Friday (US time) in a news release. The men involved have been identified as Sampath Rajidi and Sreedhar Mada. Both are 51-year-old residents of Dublin, East Bay, in the United States. US authorities detailed further that their scheme was orchestrated by filing visa petitions for non-existent roles at the University of California. After securing H-1B worker visa approvals, they would later place workers with private clients, according to US federal prosecutors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1003884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1003884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1003884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1003884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1003884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1003884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}