A former U.S. diplomat has claimed that a substantial portion of H-1B visas issued to Indian applicants were obtained through fraud.

Mahvash Siddiqui, who worked as a consular officer at the U.S. consulate in Chennai (formerly Madras) from 2005 to 2007, said on the Center for Immigration Studies’ podcast that she adjudicated roughly 51,000 non-immigrant visa applications, most of them H-1Bs.

She alleged that between 80 and 90 percent of H-1B visa applications from India involved fraudulent documentation or unqualified applicants.

"I would say 80 to 90 percent of the people that I encountered in each of the visa categories, you know, especially the young people between the ages of 20 to 45 that, you know, had very few ties to India, were basically using the non-immigrant visa pipeline to essentially come and work in the United States and never go back home and essentially displace American workers," Siddiqui said.

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