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India Today
25-04-2025
- Business
- India Today
H-1B visa fraud lands Indian-origin man in prison in US
An Indian-origin man was sentenced to 14 months in prison for large-scale H-1B visa fraud in the US. As co-founder of a firm, Nanosemantics, Kishore Dattapuram provided skilled workers to Bay Area tech companies, earning commissions. Other than the prison term, California-based Dattapuram will also have to serve three years of supervised firm's scheme aimed to secure visas for candidates before jobs were available, which gave it an unfair advantage over 55, is based in Santa Clara, California. Dattapuram and two Indian-origin men pleaded guilty to charges of visa fraud and conspiracy in three, including Kumar Aswapathi (55) and Santosh Giri (48), were charged with one count of conspiracy to commit visa fraud and 10 counts of substantive visa fraud in an indictment filed on February 28, addition to the prison term, Judge Davila also ordered Dattapuram to serve three years of supervised release, forfeit $125,456.48, and pay a fine of $7,500 and a $1,100 special assessment fee, the US Attorney's Office said in a statement issued on Monday, April WORKED WITH CO-DEFENDANTS TO SUBMIT FRAUDULENT APPLICATIONSDattapuram was a co-founder of Nanosemantics, Inc, a staffing firm based in San Jose that provided skilled workers to Bay Area tech companies. Nanosemantics earned a commission for each worker it placed with a client firm received a commission for workers placed at client companies. Nanosemantics regularly submitted H-1B petitions for foreign workers so that they could obtain temporary authorisation to live and work for employers in the secure an H-1B visa, an employer must submit a Form I-129 petition to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). This petition, along with other documents, must confirm that a job is available for the worker, specify its duration, and include key details such as worked with his co-defendants to submit fraudulent H-1B applications that falsely represented that foreign workers had specific jobs waiting for them at designated end-client companies, when in fact the jobs did not exist, the statement SCHEME GIVES NANOSEMANTICS EDGE OVER COMPETITORSOn multiple occasions, Dattapuram paid companies to be listed as end-clients for foreign workers, even though he knew the workers would never work for those the defendants admitted, the goal of the scheme was to allow Dattapuram's firm, Nanosemantics, to obtain visas for job candidates before securing jobs for them. That allowed Nanosemantics to place those workers with employers as soon as those jobs were available, rather than waiting for the visa application process to conclude -- giving the firm an unfair advantage over its Watch
News18
24-04-2025
- Business
- News18
Telugu Techie Faces 14-month Jail In US For H-1B Visa Fraud
For visa fraud, the owner of a technology employment company in San Jose was given a 14-month prison sentence. A San Jose-based technology employment agency owner was sentenced to 14 months in prison for visa fraud in the United States. The 55-year-old co-owner and operator of Nanosemantics Inc., Kishore Dattapuram, was charged in February 2019 with ten counts of substantive visa fraud and one count of conspiracy to conduct visa fraud, along with two other defendants. Kishore Dattapuram was a co-owner and operator of a San Jose-based employment company that supplied qualified workers to Bay Area tech companies. For employees assigned to client companies, Nanosemantics was paid a commission. To grant temporary authorisation for foreign workers to reside and work for businesses in the United States, Nanosemantics often filed H-1B petitions. According to a statement issued on April 21, by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, he entered a guilty plea to all charges in November of last year. The prosecution claimed that Nanosemantics was paid commissions for each employee it was able to put in Bay Area tech firms. On behalf of international employees, the firm filed H-1B visa petitions, granting them temporary permission to reside and work in the United States. To obtain an H-1B visa, companies must submit an I-129 petition to US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) attesting to the existence of a legitimate work offer and including important information such as the job's duration and related pay. Authorities believe Kishore Dattapuram and two other individuals conspired to submit H-1B applications that made fraudulent claims that foreign workers had employment lined up with particular end-client companies that did not actually exist. 'The goal of the scheme was to secure H-1B visas for candidates before jobs were confirmed, allowing Nanosemantics to quickly place them once real opportunities arose, giving the company an unfair advantage over competitors," the prosecutors added. Apart from his jail term, Kishore Dattapuram was mandated to complete three years of closely monitored release. A $1,100 special assessment fee, a $7,500 fine, and a forfeiture of $125,456.48 are also required of him. First Published:
