Keeping Immigration Site Visits Civil And Focused

US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) empowers its Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) officers to make unannounced site visits to employers of H-1B and L-1 workers. The stated purpose of these site visits is to ensure the employers and employees in these visa situations are complying with the applicable laws and rules that govern the visa category.

The inspectors conducting these site visits are supposed to limit their inquiries to the facts that relate to the particular visa petition under review. Certainly it is legitimate to check on the existence of the employer and to determine whether the beneficiary of the visa petition is employed in the position described in the petition, at the worksite location identified in the petition, and at (or above) the salary promised in the petition.