Consultant to Pay $2.5 Million to Settle B-1 Visa Fraud Claims

The consulting company Mu Sigma will pay $2.5 million to settle allegations that it gamed the immigration system by bringing in workers on B-1 business visitor visas instead of the more appropriate H-1B visa.

The Aug. 28 settlement with the federal government, announced Sept. 19, resolves both a criminal case brought by the State Department and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and a civil False Claims Act case brought on behalf of the government by a whistleblower. An investigation was launched in 2013 after the whistleblower brought the matter to the government’s attention.

Mu Sigma chalks the allegations up to “a ...