The US administration hs defendant the businesses of golf shot further tickets within the lottery system - quite the visas they need - so the lion's share of H-1B visas are allotted to them.
The US has accused top Indian IT firms TCS and Infosys of unfairly cornering the lion's share of H-1B visas by putting extra tickets in the lottery system, which the Trump administration wants to replace with a more merit-based immigration policy.
At a White House making known last week, an official within the Trump administration aforesaid atiny low range of big outsourcing corporations flood the system with applications that naturally ups their probabilities of success within the lottery draw.
"You may know their names well, but just like the high recipients of the H-1B visa area unit firms like Tata, Infosys, cognizant they'll apply for a awfully sizable amount of visas, quite they get, by golf stroke additional tickets within the lottery raffle, if you may, so they're going to get the lion's share of visas," the senior official aforementioned, in line with transcript of the informing announce on White House website.
Responding to a follow-up on why Indian companies were singled out for a mention, the White House response said Tata Consultancy Services, Infosys and Cognizant were the top three recipients of H-1B visas.
"And those three companies are companies that have an average wage for H-1B visas between $60,000 and $65,000 (a year). By contrast, the median Silicon Valley software engineer's wage is probably around $150,000," the official said.
He said contracting firms that are not skills employers, who oftentimes use workers for entry-level positions, capture the lion's share of H-1B visas. "And that's all public record."
All the three Indian firms refused to comment on the US administration comment.
The official said H-1B visas presently were awarded through the random lottery with about 80 percent of H-1B workers being paid less than the median wage in their fields.
"Only about 5 to 6 percent, depending on the year, of H-1B workers, command the highest wage tier recognised by the Department of Labour, there being four wage tiers. And the highest wage tier, for instance, in 2015, was only 5 percent of H1B workers," he said.
He said workers are often brought in well below market rates to replace American workers, again, sort of violating the principle of the programme, which is supposed to be a means for bringing in skilled labour.
"Instead you're bringing in a lot of times workers who are actually less skilled and lower paid than the workers that they're replacing," he said.
So if the current system that awards visas randomly without regard for skill or wage is changed to a skills-based awarding, it would make it extremely difficult to use the visa to replace or undercut American workers, he said.
"Because you are not delivery in staff at to a lower place the market wage. then it is a terribly elegant approach of finding terribly general issues within the H-1B guest employee visa," he said.