New Ruling Ends Diploma Mills for H-1B Workers
Thu, Jun 1st 2017 @ 11:51 am EDT
The Administrative Appeals Office (AAO) of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services ruled that guest workers seeking a H-1B visa based on their advanced degree must have earned their degrees from colleges that were accredited when they received their degree. This will stop the loophole that allows foreign workers to easily obtain an advanced degree from “diploma mills” in order to be eligible for a H-1B visa.
Federal law limits the number of H-1B visas to 65,000 per year but 20,000 additional H-1B visas awarded to those with graduate degrees.
The original case was brought on behalf of a foreign worker with a master’s degree from International Technological University in California whose H-1B visa application had been denied because the college was not accredited when he earned his degree.
https://www.numbersusa.com/news/new-ruling-ends-diploma-mills-h-1b-workers
