H-1B: Prison for visa fraud in case involving Bay Area workers

Another Indian national who received an H-1B visa through one of Katam’s two staffing companies was described as a computer systems analyst in 2015 visa application documents, which specified — under penalty of perjury — that he was to work in-house at one of Katam’s staffing businesses, in New York, according to the complaint. A man described as “Beneficiary 1” paid one of Katam’s companies $3,500 for the H-1B application, in violation of the law banning employers from making job candidates pay visa fees, the criminal complaint said. That worker, along with others who received H-1B visas through Katam, ended up working at a location different from the one specified on the visa application, violating the law, the complaint said.

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