With LLMs, questionable law firms, and profile-building agencies cashing in on EB2 porters has resulted in the significant non-ROW backlog. Some people in the sub, along with some questionable lawyers, have rationalized that submitting, manipulating, or generating new weak evidence and are pretending it is a borderline profile and is not fraud. It is intended to fool some USCIS officers, unless USCIS develops fraud detection AI that can flag it (it is still under development). Due to these scammers, genuine people may face additional scrutiny or RFEs, but there are some things genuine candidates can do to avoid that (i will discuss that in next post but it revolves around sustained acclaim, submitting evidence that fraudsters can never generate).

Intentionally fabricating, altering, or misrepresenting facts to obtain a GC is fraud. Marrying someone just to get a GC is fraud, even if you stay with that person for 1 or 2 years. Marriage-based GC fraudsters also argue that once they leave the marriage, it was never their intention, or they make up abuse stories.

Intentionally submitting weak or fabricated evidence to fool immigration authorities is fraud. There is no wordplay around "barely meeting criteria." Some people go out and obtain weak evidence through third parties just to fool USCIS. Again, this evidence did not exist in their past. Here are a few examples:

1. A good example is questionable awards. Everyone knows about Globee, etc., but 10 other awards exist that are full of Indians. Even if 20% of them received GCs, that is thousands of fraudulent GCs. https://www.reddit.com/r/eb_1a/comments/1lbsgmd/treasuretrove_of_fake_awards_and_publications/

Can you name one extraordinary person who buys these fake awards? Did these exist before 2020? Why is every award winner Indian?

Thousands of people are now Fellows or whatever. Multiple organizations popped up just to fulfill these schemes.

1. Writing papers in groups solely to get a GC, creating fake citations, and publishing in low-tier predatory journals. A giveaway sign is that all authors are from the same country, and most topics are nonsensical reviews on AI/ML/cybersecurity with no new findings. If you are so extraordinary, why do you exclusively publish in predatory journals? I see a trend of people in finance or tech publishing AI slop unrelated to their expertise.
2. Multiple low-tier conferences and hackathons now run every year, even in 2026, mainly to help people meet criteria. Hackathon judge positions are sold. All of this is still happening silently in private groups.
3. The trend of showing millions of dollars in product impact for work that involved hundreds of people, or claiming company-level impact as an original contribution. The trend is showing some AI app deployed to millions or generating revenue when, in reality, that person improved 1% of it or made Git commit 10998.
4. Buying recommendation letters or obtaining them through channels instead of having people genuinely write them because they used or valued the work. Most recommenders are the same for many people, and the language is very similar.
5. Writing multiple blog posts with LLMs and then buying or begging for engagement. Medium is a good example. Nowadays, multiple Medium posts exist just to check a criterion.

Again, none of this is moving up in a career or showing excellence. Any genuine profile does not suffer from a "framing" problem about being extraordinary or having impactful work.

Most importantly, all of this is often done within a very short span of 1 to 2 years after 2022 because of a combination of the EB1 becoming current,Premium processing, LLMs, agencies offering services, and lax adjudication standards from 2022 to 2024. Are you saying an extraordinary person with 10+ years of career experience suddenly woke up in 2022, started doing all these things at scale, and that it is not fraud? It is "borderline extraordinary."

For EB1C, a person has to qualify as a manager outside the U.S.

Intentionally going to Canada or India for one year to meet the criteria by negotiating with a manager, including offering kickbacks or similar arrangements, is fraud.

Misrepresenting managerial duties to get EB1C approved and then later changing the duties is fraud. The wage level also seems comically low for "extraordinary" manager.

If a low-level engineer with EB2 becomes a manager 10 years later, why should porting be allowed? In the absence of fraud, regular filing should get them a GC quickly.

These are not minor violations or borderline profiles. These scammers are fooling USCIS, and USCIS/DHS/ICE, along with reporters and Congress, will likely figure this out in the next 1 to 2 years. Digitization of records makes it much easier to revoke approvals or ban people.

Please write to USCIS/DHS/DOJ and reach out to reporters/congress.For people saying, "What makes you so special?" or accusing others of pulling up the ladder, I do not benefit from any of this. I want a person applying in 2028 or 2030, a brilliant MIT physicist, a great civil engineer, or a medical scientist or tech founder to have a slot instead of another mediocre scammer. EB1 will become a porter-only or scammer-only category in the future if this is not stopped.

I posted a week ago about tackling fraud in EB1, primarily from a specific non-ROW country (of which I am a citizen, by the way). Although most of the responses were expressions of helplessness and dismay from genuine applicants, I realized from the hate DMs I received that a lot of people who game the system are part of this sub. Genuine applicants, please take the following actions to build momentum against fraud and abuse.

The first step is to get the attention of journalists and YouTubers close to Congress (the Texas and Ohio Attorneys General, governors, senators, congressmen, and people linked to the VP) for EB1C. For EB1A, get the attention of professors and researchers working in the government.

For EB1C

Reform: Make EB1C for extraordinary talent only. It should be reserved strictly for executives. Just as EB1A and EB1B require you to be at the top of your field, you should be at the top of management (an executive or senior director).

If you are a regular L1A employee or a project manager with just a few reports, this visa category should be under scrutiny. This is especially true at WITCH companies, consultancies, or even companies like Microsoft and Amazon that are known for internal favoritism. We need to investigate companies that:

1. Have fewer than 50 employees but bring in multi-level managers (consultancies).
2. Are multinational corporations exporting more than 50 junior managers in a similar area or title level (WITCH, Amazon, Microsoft).

Nepotism and bribery seem rampant. Furthermore, circumventing labor certifications (avoiding PERM) and discriminatory hiring (avoiding the hiring of US citizens) are very easy to prove. Undercover operations and investigative journalism need to be done. To achieve that, contact prominent YouTubers and influencers close to Congress. Why do companies need to export thousands of managers with just a bachelor's degree when there are hundreds of layoffs? What is the Department of Labor doing? Some of this happens in clusters within Texas and Ohio, where the attorneys and congresspeople may be running for elections.

EB1A and Porting

A reasonable reform to target is banning the porting of priority dates from categories that require a Labor Certification (EB2 and EB3) to categories where the Labor Certification is waived (EB2-NIW, EB1B, EB1A). This does not affect other countries. It only targets profile-building fraudsters trying to game the system by pretending they are at the top of their field through fake judging or publishing scrap text in the form of blogs/ AI/ML papers from LLMs.

This would also eliminate the middlemen who teach people how to write papers, how to be a judge, and how to buy awards. Extraordinary scientists, researchers, and engineers do not need lessons on how to write a paper. These middlemen also need to be brought into the limelight because this is a security issue. Gaming this category is detrimental to the US and pollutes the research ecosystem.

A good place to raise awareness is on LinkedIn. Once researchers realize the pollution of papers, conferences, and fake citations caused by fraudsters, there will be a huge backlash, and opportunities will close down for profile builders.

I still do not understand: if you are a big senior director at a FAANG company easily making $500k+ for many years, why can't you just apply for an EB5 visa? Nobody is arguing against your worthiness. Someone asked me to consider the humanity aspect, but these porters got jobs, H1Bs, and promotions in easier times. They have built massive wealth, have US citizen children, and already have extended work visas. Getting a Green Card through fraud is just an extra perk for them. Meanwhile, most upcoming researchers and engineers cannot even find employer sponsorships, and most grants exclude them. You can be a rockstar Stanford PhD or a physicist pioneering new technology, yet you must wait behind a mediocre Amazon, Microsoft, or Fortune 500 manager who pushed a 100th commit as part of a team of 500 people.

Please act on these two channels, or EB1 will become another H1B.

PS: No racism or slurs.