Thursday, December 17, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
25,000 onsite H-1B inspections
US immigration officials are taking H-1B enforcement plan to conduct 25,000 on-site inspections of companies hiring foreign workers over this fiscal year, according to a report in ComputerWorld.
According to the report, the move marks a nearly five-fold increase in inspections over last fiscal year, when the agency conducted 5,191 site visits. The new federal fiscal year began Oct. 1. Tougher enforcement comes in response to a US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) study (in October 2008), titled H1-B Benefit Fraud & Compliance Assessment, which found a 27% rate of fraud in the H1-B visa programme. According to the study, there were a total of 51 cases from the sample of 246 H1-B petitions that were fraud or a technical violation of the regulations. The research primarily found two types of fraud, one, where there was 'willful misrepresentation, falsification, or omission of a material fact'; and two, where there was no willful fraud, but `there was evidence that the employer or alien beneficiary failed to comply with applicable laws and regulations.' Some of the fraudulent activities included cases where either the business did not exist or the degrees and supporting documentation were found forged. In several cases, signatures too were found forged. USCIS study also found that 27 percent of the workers surveyed were being paid less than the prevailing wage for a particular job description and location. According to US immigration authorities, over 11,000 H-1B visa slots are still vacant against the Congress-mandated cap of 65,000 for the fiscal 2010. This is for the first time in several years that thousands of H-1B visas are still to be filled up. In previous years, the entire visa slots used to be grabbed on day one. |
Monday, August 10, 2009
H1B Interview Sample Question
- Why are you going to united states?
- Why you want to work in United States and other countries?
- Where are you working currently?
- What is the reason
- for leaving your current job?
- What company are you going to work for?
- Why are you going to work for this company?
- Who is the CEO of this company?
- When was this company established?
- Where is this company located?
- Do you have any other family member in
- Which other countries did you travel before?
- Are you planning to visit any other countries?
- How many years of professional experience do you have?
- Tell me about your current company.
- What is the package (salary) you are getting at your current job?
- What’s your new job paying you?
- Do you have plans to come back to your country?
- How often will you visit your country?
- Why do you want to work in US and not in any other country?
- Why do you want to work at this particular company?
- How will you support yourself for the first month?
- Are you coming for H1B stamping for the first time?
- What city/state is your company located in?
- Why would you think you will return to your country?
- When are you going to US if you get visa?
- What academic degree you have?
- Show me you transcript / degree.
- What is the highest level of education you have?
- Can you tell me about your past work experience?
- What will you do if you H1B period is over?
- What role were you assigned to in your most current job?
- Tell us about the number of employees in your previous company.
- Tell us about the number of employees in your new company
- Show me your offer letter.
- What is the salary package mentioned in your offer letter?
- When did you receive your offer letter?
- How did you come to know about this company?
- What were the selection procedures?
- How many rounds of interview did you face?
- What is your company’s gross total income?
- Show me your company’s US registration document?
- Does your new company have a branch in your country?
- Who took your interview?
- When was your interview taken?
- What kind of interview was it?
- What is your company’s business?
- Who are your company’s clients?
- What are your technical skills?
- What are the technologies you know?
- What softwares have you known?
- What role will you be assigned in US company?
- What projects will you be assigned in US company?
- Is the task you will be assigned from Internal Project?
- Who is your end client?
- Where are your end client’s located?
- Will you be working from company location or end client’s location?
- Who will pay for your travel?
- How long will your stay be in US?
- Where in US will be your stay?
- What if your company fires you?
- Will you be shifting your job?
- Will you work part time on any other company?
- Tell me about the living cost in the city you are going to.
- How do you know this is a genuine company?
- Show us the letter from your US company describing your roles.
- Can I see your company’s tax return document?
- Can I see your tax return document?
- What percentage of your salary will you be paying as tax?
- What’s the age of your company?
- Tell us about your company’s annual turn over.
- Show us a letter describing your project.
- Are you married?
- Are you taking your spouse with you?
- Show me your country’s permission for you to work in US.
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