Fast Track Visa program
was run by the UK Government along similar lines, pushed forward by a IT agency Spring IT and EDS. Over a 2 year period 20,000 visa were given away, when the British embassy in New Deli was reporting 150 Visa being stolen each month and sold on for ?10,000.
Barclay's Bank famously sacked over 150 FTV's workers as they did not have the qualifications or were forgeries. the UK dept of Trade has a IT training program written in India delivered late at an extra cost of ?40 million and inside 1 year fraud had cost ?180 million. the UK post office was going to have the largest office automation systems in Europe put in written mostly in India, alass the code quality was so poor and Oracle table not indexed or linked the work was spread around the UK at cost of ?500 million. the decission taken by UK CEO of Fujitsu. the fear was that if delivered by India comtractors to the DTI the fines and penalties would bankrupt Fujitsu as a global provider. the UK foreign Office created a project to deal with all the work visa request and fordged papers tracking names of requets and expiration. the work outsourced to India 3 months after going live the database details of every visa request was listed on the IIS6 web server. No need for SQL injection, as the server and sql2000 had zero patches or services packs
