Comment by natas
1 day ago
One of my past manager was on a O-1 (in a tech company); he was from india. So, it goes like this, you register to be a presenter in a conference, copy some material from another tech talk and (re-)present it there as a novelty (rince and repeat). Pretty Simple. Step #2, create your facebook, youtube channel (etc.) and buy subscribers (from mediamister.com, getafollower.com, views4you.com, socialwick.com, buzzoid.com, etc) which is perfectly legal; he must have spent 10% of his salary to buy millions of subscribers; and that's how he's been working in tech for the past 10+ years.
Do you have evidence this was true? This sounds like a good story but I thought getting these visas was mostly about revenue receipts, and if he bought a lot of subscribers, they must've been subscribing to something that paid him.
Outside of naming and shaming the guy, what kind of evidence are you asking for?
To my knowledge an O-1 visa isn't about revenue receipts.
You're right! I looked it up. It's not about followers either though:
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-m-chapter-...
I'm not asking for evidence. I'm asking if he has evidence.
This is just a sad read. And probably worth an in-depth article.