{"id":1028935,"date":"2026-08-15T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1028935"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:54:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:24:04","slug":"locked-offices-empty-floors-us-investigators-probe-h-1b-fraud-in-dallas-linked-to-500-petitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/15\/locked-offices-empty-floors-us-investigators-probe-h-1b-fraud-in-dallas-linked-to-500-petitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Locked offices, empty floors: US investigators probe H-1B fraud in Dallas linked to 500+ petitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has stepped up its investigation into possible fraud in the H-1B visa programme, with Inspector General Anthony P. D\u2019Esposito personally leading checks at business locations in Dallas, Texas, this week. <\/p>\n<p>The action is part of a nationwide investigation and could directly impact Indian IT professionals and outsourcing companies, which are among the largest users of H-1B visas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor\u2019s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has stepped up its investigation into possible fraud in the H-1B visa programme, with Inspector General Anthony P. D\u2019Esposito personally leading checks at business locations in Dallas, Texas, this week. The action is part of a nationwide investigation and could directly impact Indian IT professionals and outsourcing companies, which are among the largest users of H-1B visas.<\/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-1028935","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\/1028935","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=1028935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1028956,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1028935\/revisions\/1028956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1028935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1028935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1028935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}