NEW DELHI: US President Donald Trump 's order for a comprehensive review of the H-1B visa programme could well be based on wrong data.A controversy raged in the US for months about low-paid H-1B visa holders, mainly tech workers hired by Indian companies, taking away American jobs. Since mostly younger workers, who are paid less, are sent to multiple offices, they are counted double or triple. This skews the numbers towards lower-paid H-1B workers.The NFAP study says the data that creates the impression that 80% of could be wrong on another count-understating of salaries by employers. Employers are required to pay the higher of the prevailing wage or actual wage paid to all other individuals with similar experience and qualifications for the specific employment in question. It would mean the decision of the Trump administration to review the H-1B visa programme is an attempt to fix a problem that does not exist but can end up damaging the US tech sector which requires foreign talent.

Source: Economic Times June 13, 2017 09:27 UTC