Santander Consumer Sues Over H-1B Denial for Senior Analyst (1)

Santander Consumer USA Inc. is the latest company to take the federal government to court over the denial of a coveted H-1B visa, filing a complaint Nov. 18 in federal district court in Washington.

The lawsuit by the finance company, which provides vehicle loans to buyers at more than 14,000 Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, and Toyota dealerships across the U.S., asserts that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services wrongly determined that the position of “Senior Analyst, Credit Risk” wasn’t a “specialty occupation” as required for the visa despite requiring a master’s degree in most instances.

Businesses increasingly have been suing the ...