Hundreds of H-1B Seekers Sue Over Program’s ‘Rampant Fraud’ (1)

Several hundred H-1B visa applicants are suing the Department of Homeland Security over alleged “rampant fraud and abuse” in a Trump-era system of registration and distribution of the specialty worker visas.

The prior administration’s online registration system, created by a 2019 rule, has sparked a whole industry of consultant firms and fake employers to register on applicants’ behalf multiple times to boost the individuals’ chances of selection, and the rule must be thrown out, the plaintiffs’ lawyers wrote in a complaint filed late Monday at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in Washington.

“Because the current ...