NEW: a whistleblower who formerly worked with Voya Financial sheds light on its role in Indian visa fraud.
The whistleblower describes Voya as "a classic Indianized body shop customer for its backend IT operations, which are all outsourced to Cognizant." He worked with Cognizant for several years, supplying platform engineering staff on his assignments as a consultant for one of Voya's software vendors. The Cognizant staffers lack anything resembling qualifications, had zero technical skills, and couldn't even speak English properly. They reported to an Indian-American manager in Windsor, Connecticut.
While the whistleblower was on site in Voya's Windsor office, he saw the aforementioned manager illegally conspiring to commit visa fraud with an H-1B underling. He watched the Indian-American manager coaching the H-1B worker to give false responses in his upcoming interview with USCIS, telling him to claim he was a manager with multiple staffers reporting to him. Said manager reiterated that despite what the H-1B told USCIS, he would continue to work as an individual contributor, not a manager. The manager also told the H-1B worker that lying to USCIS in this manner would help him transition to an EB-1 visa.
The whistleblower witnessed this during Trump's first presidency and reported it to USCIS, who took no action. Both the Indian-American manager and the Indian H-1B continued to work for Cognizant in Voya's Windsor office for years.
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