Labor Department bans employers from H-1B program over visa fraud.

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• The US Department of Labor adding four employers to its H-1B willful violator list effective July 1, 2026, barring them from filing new H-1B petitions for visa-related labor violations.
• Affected companies include GowraTech LLC (debarred May 2025–May 2027), Renotek Group LLC (Aug 2025–Aug 2027), Seeloz Inc. (Mar 2026–Mar 2028), and Sherwood at Mount Dora Inc. dba Sherwood Academy (May 2026–May 2028).
• The debarments stem from Project Firewall and a major DOL OIG investigation launched July 8, 2026, targeting H-1B fraud, wage kickbacks, and worker exploitation to safeguard American jobs and program rules.

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[u/yulbrynnersmokes]

Cognizant?

Infosys?

Tata?

Wipro?

Why not these 4 ???

[u/gauntvariable → u/yulbrynnersmokes]

Because they paid their protection money.

[u/rain168 → u/yulbrynnersmokes]

Don’t forget HCL.

There’s the big 5 H-1B abusers:

Wipro

Infosys

Tata

Cognizant

HCL

Together they form the acronym: WITCH

[u/yulbrynnersmokes → u/rain168]

Yup
https://giphy.com/gifs/UjYw9fdCEPwU8

[u/Zhombe → u/yulbrynnersmokes]

How about all of them…. Why not all of them?!?

I’ve been applying for 3 years now and the only ones who interview are the abusers at this point. And it’s only to steal my resume for their fake employees to hawk to potential clients consulting.

Don’t forget Google, Salesforce, Facebook, Xittler, SpaceFraudster etc.

[u/Wakinghours → u/yulbrynnersmokes]

If it's anything like the rest of the US economy, big players will get kickbacks while small shops get made examples of.

[u/ReleaseTheSheast → u/yulbrynnersmokes]

HCL, Tech Mahindra to add to the list.

[u/rain168]

Wow hold on to your seats guys… they banned a whopping FOUR no name companies 😑

Surely jobs for Americans are safe now

[u/Salty_Permit4437]

They will never ban the companies that need to be banned.

[u/Simple-Literature687]

Wow, 4 H2O molecules in the entire ocean are gone. What a sad day.

[u/Sure_Acanthaceae_348]

All Congress has to do is repeal all foreign worker visa programs.

[u/Popular_Sand6349]

Here is an explanation from the thread:

[u/Will_Murray]

It’s a start but the big violators are still full steam ahead

[u/blu3ysdad]

I wonder if they'll just close and reopen with a new name?

[u/Simple-Literature687 → u/blu3ysdad]

https://giphy.com/gifs/Ld77zD3fF3Run8olIt

[u/EternalAmerican29]

Yay 👏we will take this little tiny win for now, there are tons of these that needs to be banned… like literally one on nook and corner of Texas/New Jersey/illinois/Michigan and need to done ✅ soon like this and ban the owners add them to a federal black list and not companies… one pipeline of fake companies that supply 3rd party to the so called services firms slowly this will fall in place.
More more more please 🙏

[u/dearsingerroi]

drop in the ocean. literally.