Background Checks In India

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argopal

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Do any body know or heard about the background checks being done in India for 485 APPROVED applicants, just before getting the green card.

It seems there is a FRAUD PREVENTION UNIT formed recently in US Consulates in India. They check the visa applicant's employment history like 'Employer exists..or not ' and 'Applicant has worked with the employer / pervious employer (in case of multiple employers).

Now it seems INS is using this FPU resources for checking the background of the 485 applicants.

I heard a case which happend recently...
-->The guy has come to US on B1 in the year 1995 from a company 'A' (cooked) in india
-->Joined another company 'B' in US after converting B1 to H1
-->Joined another company 'C' in US after one or two years
-->Applied for GC and process ran for more than three years
-->Got 485 stamped on the passport
-->Wating for Green Card
-->RECEVED a letter from INS saying that company 'A' does not exists in India, listing all the names of B1 visa holders who have come to US in 1995 thro' that company. Some of these already have GC's

Do anybody have such experiences. Please share on this thread. Would request readers to comment on the consequences in the above case
 
argopal

If this news is true what will happen to those guys having fake degrees and fake previous company exp letters.

i think they are in danger now...
 
It is a good thing which has happened.There should be background checks when applying for visa, as I know one person who was a stenographer in India, did some oracle course,got H1 through his brother's company which he started after getting canadian citizenship.
the thing is he is doing this for livelihood, I agree, but genuine people who slog for degrees etc are wronged by this.
 
If this is true ... then its good !!!

remember this is already happening for those who go for GC through CP .... so it makes sense to have the same for the 485 applicants ... why should it be different ??

Also any fraud should be prevented whether immigration or other ....
 
Why INS hasn't found it out before stamping his passport and why they contacted consulate to identify this guy?

For all applicants, they do this kind of check? then the waiting time will be longer.
 
What happens to guys who have worked for companies in India which does not exist now. :mad:
 
I think the reason is he has a name hit in IBIS database, possibly from NAILS which found out the B-1 fraud.

If you have a common name with someone, it's a worry. I don't know if INS uses birthday + name to do indexing, or just name.
 
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