The US bans 11 firms from applying for H-1B visas

The US Department of Labour bans 11 firms from filing H-1B petitions. 6 out of the 11 found to be willful violators.

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In December 2019, the US Department of Labour released a list of 11 firms that had been currently banned from applying for H-1B visas. These firms were often used by Indian workers.

The period that the ban is expected to last varies from firm to firm. While the disbarment period of some is for a few months, others have been banned for about 2 years.

Out of the total 11 firms that were mentioned by the US Department of Labour, 6 were termed to be “willful violators”. By a willful violation is implied a failure to comply with the stipulated criteria in place to apply for a H-1B visa. These firms also had various Labour Department investigations pending against them.

As per a Fact Sheet released by the US Department of Labour, for a firm to be considered as eligible to apply for H-1B visas for temporary high-skilled foreign workers, the firm must successfully meet certain criteria. An employer filing for H-1B must have made substantive attempts for recruiting US workers. Also, the employer must not have displaced any US worker at the time that the H-1B application is filed.

Moreover, if the H-1B to be hired is to be placed at a secondary job site, the firm that is petitioning on his behalf must ensure that the secondary employer must not have displaced a US worker. The secondary employer must have previously offered the job to a better or equally qualified US worker who had applied for the same job for which the H-1B worker is being sought.

Those employers filing for H-1B are found to be willful violators that have either misrepresented the facts or found a way around the rules.

These 11 firms on the US Department of Labour list are –

Sl. No.	Name	Based In	Willful Violator	Period of Disbarment
1	Business Reporting Management Services, Inc.	Parlin, New Jersey	Yes	From August 2018 to August 2020.
2	Comprehensive Kids Development School	New York	Yes	From April 2019 to April 2021.
3	E-Aspire IT, LLC	Cranbury, New Jersey	Yes	From April 2019 to April 2021.
4	How We Fund It, Inc.	–	Yes	From October 2019 to October 2021.
5	Kimberly Fisher	–	Yes	From October 2019 to October 2021.
6	The Law Office of Paul Wiesenfeld in Rockville	Maryland	Yes	From April 2019 to April 2021.
7	Azimetry, Inc.	Redmond, Washington	No	–
8	Bulman Consultant Group	Chicago, Illinois	No	–
9	EWC and Associates	–	No	–
10	Kevin Chambers	–	No	–
11	NetAge	West Newton	No	–

 

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