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The "New" USCIS H-1B Fraud Guidance--What It Means for Employers

Since the inception of the Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) Unit at USCIS in 2007, the watchword as been that there is actually fraud in every immigration case, sometimes USCIS just has to look really hard to find it.  Egged on by current anti-immigrant shill Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa, "whistle-blowers" at the California Service Center have been feeding Senator Grassley "information" about being "forced" to approve cases they do not think should be approved.  Of course, there is no evidence that any of this actually occurred, or which cases were supposedly approved that should not have been. A factual basis notwithstanding, the USCIS has been on a witch-hunt on H-1B petitions for several years now.  First it began with a huge new crackdown on Requests for Evidence on filed cases , which for years were approved without question, but which now are routinely denied.  As noted in one report:  "   For H-1B petitions, the Request for ...