Employers Prohibited From Filing Multiple H-1B Visa Petitions For Same Worker

[OhioChick]

Source: Information Week

If you're caught violating the new federal rule, the government will throw out your duplicate petitions, withhold the visas, and keep your money.

By Marianne Kolbasuk McGee
InformationWeek
March 19, 2008 03:50 PM


If you're considering stuffing the H-1B visa ballot box with duplicate applications for the same job candidate to improve your odds that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will pick your visa petition in the random H-1B lottery next month, forget about it.

A new interim USCIS rule that was published today in the Federal Register and takes effect immediately prohibits employers from filing multiple H-1B petitions for the same worker.

If you're caught violating the rule, USCIS will throw out your duplicate petitions, withhold the visas, and keep your money.

"USCIS will deny or revoke multiple petitions filed by an employer for the same H-1B worker and will not refund the filing fees submitted with multiple or duplicative petitions," says the rule.



Read more: http://www.informationweek.com/outsourcing/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206904753

[ChromeFoundry]

1. Prohibited...uh, that sounds threatening!

"In no case should a PhD genetic researcher lose out to a $16 hour accountant," said Berry.

Is a $16/hr. accountant... one of those jobs that are in high demand and cannot be filled by local talent? Or is this one of those jobs that "an American won't do?"

[superconnected]

2. Cool! Good move.

[Demeter]

3. I'm Trying Not To Believe That Idiots Run The Nation, But

my credulity is at an all-time low.

[Earth Bound Misfit]

4. K & R..

:hi: Hello OhioChick! Keep us posted.

[OhioChick]

6. Thanks....

Don't understand why this wasn't considered a LBN article and was moved. I was told that it was a "feature" article. Guess it's not important to most. :shrug:

[DainBramaged]

9. Labor news is considered shit on DU

People are too busy reading petty bullshit and attacking each other over the campaigns to bother with important labor news, even if it is breaking news in the media. :wtf: :wtf: :wtf: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[OhioChick]

10. I agree with you, DainBramaged.

The economy is the #1 issue affecting voters, lost jobs, outsourcing/offshoring, NAFTA, CAFTA, etc. Homes being foreclosed on, etc., yet most economic news gets hidden away.

Amazing, isn't it?

[Earth Bound Misfit]

5. Fictional Employment Theory

Robert Oak made an excellent post about this in the Economy Forum:

"Folks, Bill Gates is at it again and we have 3 bills introduced into congress to raise the H-1B guest worker Visa cap plus create an ill-conceived F-4. This is on the cusp of a recession with layoffs coming." RECOMMEND!!!

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=114&topic_id=36697&mesg_id=36697

Fictional Employment Theory
guest workers H-1B statistical lies
Folks we have the most despicable, Karl Rove propaganda tactics of upside down causality. Corporate lobbyists, with their journalist tools are now claiming offshore outsourcing jobs and labor arbitrage create jobs.

Get that? If you are laid off, have to train your replacement, that helps the economy, according to these corporate lobbyists. I've seen some spin in my day but this one takes the cake! Right o, global labor arbitrage creates jobs when every single statistical facts shows the opposite is true. Global labor arbitrage loses US jobs and weakens the middle class. ...

What these planted commentaries as well as The Bill Gates Show are using as backup is a seriously flawed, corporate paid for, NFAP study (ahem - immediately discredited), claiming that H-1B guest workers create jobs. That's right, while Americans are displaced via ofshore outsourcing and insourcing, wala, somehow this race to the bottom agenda magically creates jobs....
http://www.economicpopulist.org/?q=content/fictional-employment-theory

[OhioChick]

7. Will Do.

:hi:

[The Backlash Cometh]

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