Hundreds of workers alleging the U.S. H-1B visa application system is “rife with fraud and abuse” have withdrawn their request to immediately pause the registration system.
Registrants sued the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in June alleging some people seeking H-1B visas registered multiple times for the lottery used to select workers for the program, unfairly increasing the odds of being selected to receive the sought-after visa. The temporary H-1B permits are given to foreign workers in specialty occupations such as mathematics, social sciences, architecture, business specialties, and other lines of work in the U.S., ...
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