Bangalore: While Infosys’ agreed $34 million in a civil settlement is under way for alleged “systematic visa fraud and abuse,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency gearing up to investigate other Indian IT companies for similar violations, reports Economic Times.

"There are offshoot investigations underway to look for similar misdeeds at some other companies," Karl Rusnock, a spokesman for the agency's division in Plano, Texas. However Rusnock declined to reveal the company names and their nationalities as the agency has not yet determined if the investigations would lead to criminal or civil charges.

When it comes to Indian IT, TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL Technologies are the largest players depending on the work visas to service clients in U.S. All of them did not comment on the issue.

The industry body, Nasscom, conceded there have been discussions between other companies and U.S. government officials on the topic of visas. "The Infosys case was old and over the last 3-4 years there have been many discussions between the companies that use the visas and US consular and government officials. I don't think there is anything new that will get triggered," said Som Mittal, president of Nasscom.

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