Partners : First Advantage
H1 visa sponsoring ( H1 visa dependant ) employers routinely check the credentials & background of the potential employees (Candidates) seeking employment in order for them to recruit candidates with genuine education and work experience. The H1 visa system loopholes has been utilized by the unscrupulous body shops, that act as brokers or middlemen. Very often, the H or L visa candidates spend a considerable amount of bench time (time spent in between assignments). The verification of H and L visa holders is now a mandatory function that will allow NOSTOPS to work with existing NOSTOPS members to authenticate and verify the effectiveness of the benching time thus spent with their visa sponsored employer. Existing H and L Visa holders renewing their Visa MUST get verified to avoid delays in the (PIMS), Petition Information Management System, whose primary purpose seems to be Fraud detection especially as related to Body Shops who request visas without actually having assignments for H-1Bs… and then not pay the H-1Bs… while starving so-called “legitimate” H-1B users.
In a nutshell, the need for a detailed and thorough verification is also necessary because:
30% of resumes are either falsified or doctored
20 to 22% of education degrees / certificates and marks sheets are fake.
20% of the potential employees have been terminated in past jobs because of poor performance / dishonesty / bad ethics / improper attitude / substance abuse or violence. Most such cases are those in the age group of 20 / 38.
6% of the Candidates have had a criminal background or have committed serious offences, including theft, sabotage and subversion. In some cases, a small number has abetted terrorist acts as well.
Over 35% provide false information to foreign embassies in an attempt to get visas to travel to these countries for various reasons.
12% provide false information to banks and credit card unions / organization to seek loans and credit cards.
Foreign nationals enter the United States without proper work authorization to work legally. This trend is increasing rapidly and the nationals of various other countries are entering the country illegally.
Over 60% of H1B Work visas are petitioned for candidates with no real job available. Candidates serving bench time, will thus highlight bogus visa sponsoring companies via gaps in employment
In order to prevent such bad trends practices, it is important for companies, embassies/diplomatic missions, and other organizations to verify a Candidate's antecedents.
Pre-Employment Background Screening is the process of thoroughly verifying the educational and professional qualifications and employment history of a job applicant and conducting a search of appropriate public records in order to ascertain any information which is relevant to his or her application. The results of the process are fully documented in a standardized, easy to read report.
All screening must be authorised by the job applicant and is carried out in a strictly legal, overt and ethical manner.
