{"id":1216398,"date":"2025-02-18T09:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216398"},"modified":"2025-02-18T09:01:00","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T14:01:00","slug":"former-staffers-say-indias-biggest-it-firm-was-gaming-the-us-visa-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216398","title":{"rendered":"Former Staffers Say India&#8217;s Biggest IT Firm Was Gaming the US Visa System"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>India&#8217;s Tata Consultancy Services allegedly manipulated U.S. visa programs by falsifying management credentials for foreign workers, according to lawsuits and federal data obtained by Bloomberg News. TCS, India&#8217;s largest IT services firm, received upwards of 6,500 L-1A visas for managers from October 2019 through September 2023, more than the next seven largest recipients combined. In contrast, TCS categorized fewer than 600 of its 31,000 U.S.-based employees as executives and managers in a 2022 federal report. <\/p>\n<p>Former TCS manager Anil Kini alleged in a lawsuit that in January 2017, a senior manager ordered him to alter organizational charts to hide discrepancies for employees without management responsibilities. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission found &#8220;credible documentary evidence&#8221; that TCS &#8220;frequently falsifies documents in support of L-1 visa applications,&#8221; according to a 2019 letter. L-1A visas for managers, unlike H-1B visas, have no pay requirements or caps. <\/p>\n<p>TCS has denied wrongdoing, saying it &#8220;strongly refutes these inaccurate allegations by certain ex-employees, which have previously been dismissed by multiple courts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"share_submission\" style=\"position:relative;\">\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/home?status=Former+Staffers+Say+India's+Biggest+IT+Firm+Was+Gaming+the+US+Visa+System%3A+https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F18%2F141245%2F%3Futm_source%3Dtwitter%26utm_medium%3Dtwitter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/twitter_icon_large-102.png\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"slashpop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fslashdot.org%2Fstory%2F25%2F02%2F18%2F141245%2Fformer-staffers-say-indias-biggest-it-firm-was-gaming-the-us-visa-system%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfacebook\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/facebook_icon_large-60.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/story\/25\/02\/18\/141245\/former-staffers-say-indias-biggest-it-firm-was-gaming-the-us-visa-system?utm_source=rss1.0moreanon&amp;utm_medium=feed\">Read more of this story<\/a> at Slashdot.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/slashdot.org\/slashdot-it.pl?op=discuss&amp;id=23613435&amp;smallembed=1\" style=\"height: 300px; width: 100%; border: none;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Tata Consultancy Services allegedly manipulated U.S. visa programs by falsifying management credentials for foreign workers, according to lawsuits and federal data obtained by Bloomberg News. TCS, India&#8217;s largest IT services firm, received upwards of 6,500 L-1A visas for managers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1216398\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1216398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slashdot","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1216398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1216398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1216398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1216398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1216398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}