{"id":977083,"date":"2025-11-27T12:15:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=977083"},"modified":"2025-11-27T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T07:37:46","slug":"one-district-in-india-got-220000-h-1b-visas-us-economist-alleges-massive-fraud-in-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/11\/27\/one-district-in-india-got-220000-h-1b-visas-us-economist-alleges-massive-fraud-in-system\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018One district in India got 220,000 H-1B visas\u2019: US economist alleges massive fraud in system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former US representative for Virginia and economist Dave Brat has alleged a massive fraud in the H-1B visa system, claiming that one Indian district alone got more than two and a half times the total number of visas allowed nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a podcast on Steve Bannon\u2019s War Room, Brat claimed that the H-1B visa system had been &#8220;captured by industrial-scale fraud&#8221; and visa numbers from India had increased in a way that went beyond what was legally allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former US representative for Virginia and economist Dave Brat has alleged a massive fraud in the H-1B visa system, claiming that one Indian district alone got more than two and a half times the total number of visas allowed nationwide. Speaking during a podcast on Steve Bannon\u2019s War Room, Brat claimed that the H-1B visa system had been &#8220;captured by industrial-scale fraud&#8221; and visa numbers from India had increased in a way that went beyond what was legally allowed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,15,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-977083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977083","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=977083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/977083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=977083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=977083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=977083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}