An Indian-American X user who claimed to have zero allegiance to India resisted the 'fake degree' narrative on social media and said not all Indian degrees are fake. India has highly prestigious colleges where 1 in 100 or 1000 get admission and people graduating from those colleges do not have fake degrees. The narrative started after a Fox News segment claimed that the majority of the H-1B applications from India were fraudulent. The claim was based on former US diplomat Mahvash Siddiqui's old statement. Siddiqui worked at a US consulate in India from 2005 to 2007 and her observation pertained to that period of time but Fox News made a general claim that India gives fake degrees, their H-1B applications are fraudulent. The fake degree claim was based on local police in India seizing counterfeit certificates.
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