USCIS To Expand Site Visit Program To Include L-1 Petitioners

Employers of L-1 transferees should now set up processes to deal with such visits.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced its intention to begin conducting worksite inspection visits to L-1 employers under the agency's Fraud Detection and National Security (FDNS) Division's Site Inspection Program.

Worksite inspection visits currently take place at H-1B employer worksites in accordance with the creation and implementation of USCIS's Administrative Site Visit and Verification Program, which was created in July 2009 in an effort to root out H-1B fraud. Random H-1B site visits occur at the worksites of employers of all sizes and across all industries. The visits seek to ensure that H-1B employment is in compliance with the terms of the H-1B program and the information contained in H-1B petitions. H-1B site visits have become increasingly common.