{"id":999155,"date":"2026-03-25T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=999155"},"modified":"2026-03-25T09:59:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T04:29:07","slug":"1-billion-fraud-by-us-govt-immigration-expert-calls-green-card-ban-a-silent-scam-no-denial-no-refund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/25\/1-billion-fraud-by-us-govt-immigration-expert-calls-green-card-ban-a-silent-scam-no-denial-no-refund\/","title":{"rendered":"$1 billion fraud by US govt: Immigration expert calls Green Card ban a silent scam; no denial, no refund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute, a Washington-based think-tank, in its latest report, called the US government&#8217;s Green Card ban on 75 countries the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system totaling up to $1 billion. In the report, immigration expert David J Bier claimed citing figures that the government took fees from immigrants and US sponsors for services that they won&#8217;t provide. It is a theft of processing fees and the total amount is astounding.<\/p>\n<p>The report said there are four policies behind the fraud:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cato Institute, a Washington-based think-tank, in its latest report, called the US government&#8217;s Green Card ban on 75 countries the largest fraud in the history of the US immigration system totaling up to $1 billion. In the report, immigration expert David J Bier claimed citing figures that the government took fees from immigrants and US sponsors for services that they won&#8217;t provide. It is a theft of processing fees and the total amount is astounding. The report said there are four policies behind the fraud:<\/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":[89,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-999155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bpo-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999155","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=999155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}