H1-B visa

A study that fuelled a debate in the US on the merits of H1-B visa has found that Indians working there temporarily get nearly $13,000 a year less than their American counterparts.The December 2005 findings by Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), on whose basis two US Senators wrote to nine Indian companies asking for details of how 20,000 H1-B visas were used, reveal that such visa holders were being paid an average salary of $52,312 as against $65,003 to locals.The H1-B visa cap had already been reduced from 1,95,000 to 65,000 two years ago.