A businessman from Virginia, who for 15 years has received $ 20 million due to the sophisticated fraudulent scheme by issuing work visas H-1B, will spend 28 months in Federal prison, then likely be deported to India.
Raju, Kosuri emigrated from India to the United States in 1999 and had a permanent residence in America legally.
Since 2000, Kosuri created more than a dozen of shell companies in Danville, Virginia, which he presented to immigration authorities as independent companies in need of Indian workers.
In fact, as later, in court, he confessed the fraud, they exist only as businesses to obtain visas to foreigners, which in fact worked in other places. In the indictment it is alleged that the man, along with his wife by Smaria Daria and four other conspirators forged the signatures of numerous persons to petition for the issuance of visas without their knowledge.
«If this fraud is too common, in the future, the H-1B can be reduced,» — said the assistant U.S. attorney Jack Hanly. «It will be a serious obstacle for those who honestly uses the program and benefit from its availability».
46-year-old wife, Kasuri pleaded guilty to illegal naturalization, agreed to immediately return to India and to renounce his citizenship in the United States. She said their son, who was born in USA and have American citizenship, leave the country with her.
President Donald trump has often criticized the H-1B programme, and even threatened to close it completely. In April of this year, he signed a decree that recommended revisions to the program specialists in the ministries of labour, justice, internal security and the state Department.
