{"id":1019981,"date":"2026-07-10T10:34:51","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T05:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1019981"},"modified":"2026-07-10T11:53:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T06:23:21","slug":"us-launches-sweeping-h-1b-visa-fraud-probe-indian-workers-it-firms-to-face-greater-scrutiny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/10\/us-launches-sweeping-h-1b-visa-fraud-probe-indian-workers-it-firms-to-face-greater-scrutiny\/","title":{"rendered":"US launches sweeping H-1B visa fraud probe; Indian workers, IT firms to face greater scrutiny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant move that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of Indian professionals and technology companies, the United States has launched a major investigation into alleged fraud and human trafficking linked to the H-1B work  visa programme and the employment-based permanent residency (PERM) system. <\/p>\n<p>Announcing the nationwide crackdown on Wednesday, the US Department of Labor&#8217;s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said it had uncovered widespread schemes involving fraudulent H-1B and PERM applications, coercive wage kickback arrangements, forced-labour practices and the exploitation of foreign workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a significant move that could have far-reaching implications for thousands of Indian professionals and technology companies, the United States has launched a major investigation into alleged fraud and human trafficking linked to the H-1B work visa programme and the employment-based permanent residency (PERM) system. Announcing the nationwide crackdown on Wednesday, the US Department of Labor&#8217;s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said it had uncovered widespread schemes involving fraudulent H-1B and PERM applications, coercive wage kickback arrangements, forced-labour practices and the exploitation of foreign workers.<\/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":[93,4,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1019981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-tribune","category-newspapers","category-the-tribune"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019981","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=1019981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020003,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019981\/revisions\/1020003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}