Team Blitz India
NEW DELHI: A US district court has approved a stipulated dismissal agreement that lifts sanctions on more than 90 foreign nationals, many of whom are Indian, who were previously denied re-entry to the US or deemed ineligible for visas due to their association with an Optional Practical Training (OPT) fraud committed by their former employers.
These students, who were victimized by fraudulent OPT employers, had faced severe repercussions, including being denied entry into the US and visa ineligibility. One affected individual from Chennai recounted being turned away by US customs officials after a brief vacation, simply because he had briefly worked for a blacklisted company certified for conducting OPT.
Jesse Bless, an attorney representing the plaintiffs, said that after extensive negotiations, the US Department of Homeland Security(DHS) agreed to review its records and confirmed that these former students are neither inadmissible to the US nor ineligible for visas solely based on their employment with fraudulent OPT companies.
