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Gaming the H-1B: A shady network of interconnected tech staffing companies in Virginia is preying on foreign graduates desperate for American work visas
Kanoria’s roommates, who also worked for ConceptsIT, informed him that the company would soon ask him to delete all of his social networking profiles, including his LinkedIn and Facebook accounts, so that there was no chance of them being discovered later by the company’s clients or U.S. immigration.
Kanoria would have to use a new résumé, furnished by ConceptsIT, that would claim he had years of work experience he did not. It meant, he says, that ConceptsIT could market Kanoria to its clients as an expert and charge them more for his services.
All told, Manish Sangal’s companies have been approved for 25,809 Labor Condition Applications for H-1B workers since 2004, according to public records database MyVisaJobs.