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One common tactic is adding more duty requirements to the description. For example, the job description would ask a database admin to manage multiple database products but, in reality, they'd only be managing one.

Finding someone with knowledge of multiple products would be hard, so they list all of them. When they can't find someone with those skills, they ask for a visa to find someone who can.

In reality, that person doesn't actually know and won't actually be managing all those products.

That method is so common, it's listed on the gov't website:

> The H-1B worker is not performing the duties specified in the H-1B petition, including when the duties are at a higher level than the position description.

https://www.uscis.gov/report-fraud/combating-fraud-and-abuse...




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