{"id":906937,"date":"2025-02-19T07:56:51","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T02:26:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=906937"},"modified":"2025-02-19T08:03:31","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T02:33:31","slug":"ex-employee-alleges-it-services-company-tcs-misused-us-visa-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/02\/19\/ex-employee-alleges-it-services-company-tcs-misused-us-visa-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-employee alleges IT services company TCS misused US visa system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employee has alleged that the IT services company misrepresented job roles to send more of its employees to the US under the L-1A visa programme rather than H-1B, thus bypassing the stricter requirements mandated under the latter, according to a Bloomberg report. <\/p>\n<p>Amit Kini, who was sent to the US on an L-1A visa as a consultant in 2012 before being promoted to business relationship manager, filed a suit under the False Claims Act (FCA) in the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) employee has alleged that the IT services company misrepresented job roles to send more of its employees to the US under the L-1A visa programme rather than H-1B, thus bypassing the stricter requirements mandated under the latter, according to a Bloomberg report. Amit Kini, who was sent to the US on an L-1A visa as a consultant in 2012 before being promoted to business relationship manager, filed a suit under the False Claims Act (FCA) in the US.<\/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":[9,34,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-906937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-it-2-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906937","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=906937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/906937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=906937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=906937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=906937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}