India, Oct. 8 -- The United States on Thursday announced that the US Department of Labor will start a crackdown on foreign students on J-1 student visas at nine top US universities as part of a country-wide crackdown on alleged visa fraud.

A J-1 student visa allows foreign students, researchers, and exchange visitors at universities to temporarily study or work in US.

In a fiery press conference flanked by US Vice President JD Vance, US Department of Labor Inspector General Anthony D'Esposito named Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT as the alleged hotspots of student visa fraud.

Vance accused these universities of using the J-1 visa program to "undercut the wages of A...